Bar Crawl [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, a table that crawls, badge bling, a remote controlled wagon, and a photo booth for bugs.
Prop Chops [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: cyberpunk samurai, rolling your own tape echo, sound reactive lighting, all the filaments, and a closer look at salt batteries.
Favorite Projects of 2023 [Maker Update]
Reverse Engineering [Maker Update]
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.
Robot Regularity [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a plastic excreting art bot, DiResta’s mini morbid mobile, glowing jewelry, invisible ink, and 3D printed repairs.
No Stairway [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a project that hits all the right notes, 3d printing with sawdust, ramen noodle knife scales, pizza factories, typesetting, and questionable angle grinder tips from Jimmy DiResta.
Instant Replay [Maker Update #132]
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.
Robert Larson Plastic Center Finder Review
I learned about the Robert Larson 800-2875 Plastic Center Finder (Amazon link) from maker Ben Light, who uses it to drill out the center in the tin can robots he builds. Online, I see a lot of videos of jewelry designers using these. Woodworkers use them on finding centers on dowels or centering up work to chuck into a lathe.
Contraptions and QR Coasters [Maker Update #71]
This week on Maker Update, an animated wooden sign, new mesh boards from Particle, 3D printed QR coasters, 3D printing on fabric, and my talk with Jon-A-Tron. This week’s Cool Tool is a Retractable Cardboard Cutter.
Wake Up! [Maker Update #58]
This week on Maker Update, a meme alarm clock, solar balloons, an Imperial rocker, bending PVC with sand, AxiDraw XL, and hacking wheelchair motors. This week’s Cool Tool is the Surebonder Pro2-100 glue gun.