This week on Maker Update: bikes made weird, the infinite text adventure, a 3d printed router lifter, the Arduino Giga, counting screws, and 3d printers for $34 dollars.

This week on Maker Update: vintage gaming for your tree, a snowflake made from LED noodles, making for fun, and the Alpakka open source gamepad.

This week on Maker Update: virtualizing your detents, the Raspberry Pi Pico gets a W, holographic jewelry, a time-warping Walkman, silent steppers and crafting a tiny miracle.

This week on Maker Update, a AI laser targeting system for dog poop, watching YouTube on an antique, a spooky phone, and a portable soldering station.

This week on Maker Update, a magic mirror, Norwegian arm, pixels for your pocket, and dialing for songs.

This week on Maker Update: CNC Routing on the cheap, a wiggly gearbox, creepy robots, Jitterbugs, Vintage safety glasses, and what to do when someone steals your design.

On this blog, I get the chance to explore my love of how people create and invent using new technology. In many ways, Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California runs completely against the theme of this blog. It is one of the earliest theme parks in the United States, seemingly frozen in time for generations, and what little technology it has is about as analog as it gets.

This week on Maker Update, an LED filament clock, a pool noodle robot rover, a scream that screams back at you, a motorized Flippy crawler, 7 vintage toy robot designs you can 3D print, a project packaging generator, and a mini metal chop saw.

This week on Maker Update, an update for Circuit Python, Adafruit IO Plus, casting metal in Kinetic sand, a 3D printed tape measure tool, and reusing vintage voltmeters. This week’s Cool Tool is a 12v SLA battery.

This week on Maker Update, a vintage GIF cam, a fidget spinner art machine, sketching the sky, using a flap disc, black hot glue, and MagPi 62. Our Cool Tool is this Sanding Flap Disc.