This week on Maker Update: a new take on stage lighting, a remote controlled smoke grenade, homebrew sofubi, and I want my cat TV.

This week on Maker Update: a bird with rocket power, my hovercraft is full of leaves, eating the goatee, and a simple solution to rotational positioning.

This week on Maker Update: repainting your neighborhood with a video game, a 3D printed Strandbeest that knows where it’s going, Anouk’s new LED dress, and a remote controlled Yip Yip.

This week on Maker Update: bringing your own baby Wall-E to life, Hackaday’s Op Amp challenge, a new twist on the video synthesizer, and adding animations to backlit panels.

This week on Maker Update: beats with a side of AI, Hackaday Prize, tiny lightsabers, Furby backpacks, foldable rovers, MIDI Lyres, and new gear from Arduino and Prusa.

I’ve published an Instructables guide showing how I made this remote controlled tricycle-riding puppet.

It was such a fun project that I’m already hard at work on an updated version and a more manageable project guide. The bill of materials alone is simply ridiculous. It’s what happens when you’re prototying and just ordering random bits and grabbing things out of your stash of whatever boards you have on hand.

But until the next version is finished, I hope this guide can offer some inspiration.

This week on Maker Update: cranking up the light pipes, battling gourd bots, animatronics for your 12-ft skeleton, digital techniques for foam, bobblehead bots, and a teeny tiny TV.

This week on Maker Update, Ian Charnas takes on Mike Tyson, a bike that’s possessed, Janksy, and cooking up a Pepper’s ghost.

This week on Maker Update, a robot that flings paint, an RC duck, a pocket-sized replicant detector, and a pumpkin for your Pi.

This week on Maker Update, motorized drinking, a Raspberry Pi RC tank, a trailer hitch table, a fluorescent hexapod, bouncing pixels, LED album art, and solar blinkenlights.