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: 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: building a prop that can withstand real lightning, a glowing pomodoro timer, a plywood air hose reel, tracking running goals with DIY electronics, a selfie stick that makes you frown, DIY x-rays, satisfying tool restorations, and making robots from everyday objects.

This week on Maker Update, sleeping in the canopy, Cricut free at last, String art, Midi Fighters, kinematics and building your first mechanical keyboard.

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 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 Robot Xylophone, Adafruit’s Open for Business, Painting with Light, Teletyping with Clue, Texting with Blinka, and the BBC MicroBit grows a tail.

Robot Chassis Compared:

Dexter Industries GoPiGo3 Robot Base Kit, https://amzn.to/2FHLpaL
YIKESHU 4WD Robot Smart Car Kit, https://amzn.to/2DXNEF3
Actobotics Whippersnapper Runt Rover, https://amzn.to/2PTqOox
Dagu Rover 5 Tracked Chassis, https://amzn.to/2SeVYDk
Pirate-4WD Mobile Platform, https://amzn.to/2DVnp1W

Transcript:

Here’s the first robot I started with. It’s the GoPiGo3 by Dexter Industries, and it’s the most expensive one on this list at around $100. The reason it’s so pricey is because it’s more than just a chassis, it’s a system that comes with it’s own motor and sensor board that plugs right in to a Raspberry Pi computer board that you need to supply and will also set you back another $35.

This week on Maker Update, a morphing orb, a Pi TV wall, Apollo 11 projects, 3D printed lock picking, and an Arduino irrigator.

This week on Maker Update, a Nintendo made from wood, painting with Skittles, a photochromic clock, a camera that looks into the past with an instant replay, and a cabinet for curing 3D prints.