This week on Maker Update: promoting pawns, your life in pixels, a 1-button microwave, and weeding out the bad wires.

This week on Maker Update: flipping the script on phone notifications, a surprise ending for Ivan’s marble clock, moving mirrors, and synchronized shoelaces.

This week on Maker Update, the joy of flexures, tracking your face with your neck, Rasengan 2.0, air-powered clamp champ, and solder for your solder.

This week on Maker Update, a candy-spewing pumpkin, making a wig from foam, a ghost in the circuit, and cow costumes for robots.

This week on Maker Update, a plotter painter, a vintage camera flash clock, a rotary cellphone, a breadboard bender, and foaming filament.

Tool:

Striveday Flexible Silicone Wire 22awg Electric
https://amzn.to/2R7rJ1x

Transcript:

Hey, I’m Donald Bell for Cool Tools and in this video I’m going to show you the difference between common, PVC coated wire for electronics, and the new breed of silicone coated wire. If you’re only used to this tried and true stuff, stick around, because the difference is dramatic.

Tools:

Hakko CSP-30-1 Wire Stripper
https://amzn.to/2DpktIv
IRWIN VISE-GRIP Multi-Tool Wire Stripper/Crimper/Cutter
https://amzn.to/2GtzcFg
IRWIN VISE-GRIP 2078300 Self-Adjusting Wire Stripper
https://amzn.to/2WOzpbJ
Wire Stripper,ZOTO Self-adjusting Cable Cutter Crimper
https://amzn.to/2TzbbAd
Self-Adjusting Wire Stripper and Cutter
https://amzn.to/2MQ16MK
WORKPRO 8-inch Self-Adjusting Wire Stripper
https://amzn.to/2DYglka
GB SE-94 10-gauge to 26-gauge Automatic Stripper and Crimper https://amzn.to/2t9UwI4
Kinee Adjustable Automatic Cable Wire Stripper
https://amzn.to/2MUmh06
Ideal Industries Stripmaster Wire Stripper,
https://amzn.to/2GrfzOe
Grizzly G9723 Wire Stripper
https://amzn.to/2thRMbP

Tool:

Hakko CHP-170 Micro Soft Wire Cutter
http://amzn.to/2fOo7n8

Transcript:

It’s time for another Cool Tools review! This time around I’m going to show you my favorite pair of flush cutters for electronics. They’re just $5 on Amazon, and made by Hakko. By picking these using the link in the description you help to support my show and the Cool Tools blog.

This week on Maker Update, a mechanical tulip, the E3D print slicer, a LEGO walkie talkie Twitch switch, 3D printing with DiResta, a triaxial clock, Laura Kampf’s swing bike, and turning pixels to gcode.

This week on Maker Update, an interactive geodesic dome, wire bending animatronics, an ornament printing ornament, motion machines, an eye tracking eye, a unique wire straightener, and a closer look at different types of E6000.