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This week on Maker Update, a Star Trek themed alarm clock, Oblique Strategies, an animated GIF display, a high tech View Master, a NeoPixel corset, and a blood glucose display.

This week on Maker Update, flipping switches, free boards for PyCon, shields, swords, robot music, purple rovers, LED legs, neon bikes, Lidar for dogs, and a look at PyPortal.

This week on Maker Update, multi-channel audio on the cheap, the future of Fritzing, GPIO Zero, a laser cut kaleidescope, and digging, climbing, cooking, or shredding your way to a high score.

The annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is a wonderfully outrageous, high tech fantasy land where corporations like Microsoft, Facebook, Sony and Google, hold court with their latest zombie-blasting simulators and VR headsets. But it has a secret.

Off in the back (technically in a whole separate building), away from the buzz and hustle of the main show floor, is a small cluster of 20 curated, one-of-a-kind games under a banner labeled “alt.ctrl”. Here, the creators of these games encourage people to come over and play their project. They call themselves Developers, but I see them as Makers like myself. People who take their fun from mixing equal parts Art and Engineering.