This week on Maker Update: the latest in lightsaber tech, a new batch of CNC tools, a drippy dress, and a time traveler’s timepiece.

This week on Maker Update: 90s toy tech with an AI upgrade, return of the cyberdecks, body bots, a Rubik’s cube that solves itself, and a pickup truck that writes.

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 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, a 100 foot slip and slide, two kinds of zoetrope, an open source test tube rocker, car lock pinball, a new issue of Make, diffusing LEDs, and a chance to win one of my favorite maker books.

This week on Maker Update, levitating water with LEDs, 3D printed skull buttons, servos on Pi, a game of Twang, Arduino animatronics, and project talk with Becky Stern. This week’s Cool Tool is the EBL 18650 Rechargeable Battery.