This week on Maker Update: a dorm room drone show, a tiny volumetric display, a new look at screen printing, and bullying robots.

This week on Maker Update, the most expensive rip surf ever made, some huge news from Raspberry Pi, thin floating shelves, clever mechanisms, making cut lists and foaming TPU.

This week on Maker Update, a round-up of the best pandemic themed projects of 2020, and some of the maker trends that defined the year.

This week on Maker Update, Astable Exhalation, Raspberry Pi 400, FlexFrog, defextiles, and pepper’s ghost in your book nook.

This week on Maker Update, a self-driving garbage can, flat-pack furniture, multimaterial goes lenticular, a Slack dial, animated origami, cassette sound sculpture and nailing the mil-spec look.

This month on Maker Update, a 3d printed drummer, Adafruit at the newsstand, going live, a voting calendar, an eyeball shootout and a panic button for all your Zoom calls.

There’s an Instructables page up now, collecting all of the work on my cocktail machine for the 2020 Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge.

I call it the VK-01 Off-World Bartender. It’s a Blade Runner-inspired machine that’s a mix of sci-fi and retro. Every detail I can think of is collected in the Instructable — every line of code, wiring diagram, and 3D design.

I hope it can inspire you to build your own cocktail machine. It’s been a challenging project, but one of my most rewarding yet. It was also a great motivation for becoming more comfortable with coding, 3D design, and exploring the possibilities of working with other makers and artists. I wouldn’t take back a minute of it.

This week on Maker Update, a robot dog for attacking poison ivy, spray-on LEDs, Festo’s robot bird, a Pi-powered pet feeder, forging a sword, and mapping LEDs on a mask.

This week on Maker Update, a sand plotter, making masks, motion activated bird calls, cutting the lights, an LED repair kit, wiring Dupont connectors, and a less lazy susan.

This week on Maker Update, a robotic golf club, cheating at Scrabble, a tetrahedron for your head, a really long gripper, and see-through Arduino.