This week on Maker Update: a holiday town controlled with your phone, robots that twist, robots that hop, a tool for flexures, and supercapacitor earrings.

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, making bubble wrap sing, telegraphing your lunch date, a mesmerizing headband, and arm wrestling the left-handed.

This week on Maker Update, a wordy clock, walking in VR, a motivational scrap bot, and 3D printed foot fashion.

This week on Maker Update, fan art, ambient tube sounds, wired AirPod controls, high-fiving forest tentacles, and a low poly web tool.

This week on Maker Update, a Pi-powered portrait picture plotter, screaming plants, time for your old TV, trash kang, big bones, and a quest for animatronic perfection.

This week on Maker Update, an artificially intelligent coffee maker, a one-button music remote, talking skulls, singing fish, and blinking bots.

This week on Maker Update, an attractive clock, robots on the ceiling, Micro:Bit gets an upgrade, a cylon scooter, pocket model kit, a box of life, and OLED fangs.

This week on Maker Update, our robot overlords get a new, terrifying mouth, the Pi camera goes deluxe, Maker Faire goes virtual, mirror inspiration, and singing toilet paper.

This week on Maker Update, a giant carbon dioxide meter to measure the air quality, making 3D printer filament in space, an urchin robot, popsicle stick plotter, animatronics, a projection mask, and a primer on paint brushes.