This week on Maker Update: the cutest useless robot, beach cleanup with computer vision, Geneva drive zoetrope, and a servo-controlled VR telepresence camera.

This week on Maker Update, sending pixels down the tubes, a workbench that fits any lifestyle, thin-film optical filters, party parrots, alien crystals, and escape rooms for introverts.

This week on Maker Update, watercoloring the hard way, music makers wanted, a Victorian GIF player, art by the inch, and stitching with the stars.

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, a zoetrope and a fidget spinner make a baby, an SLS printer from Formlabs, a Raspberry Pi weather chamber, component carnage, and a tiny OLED Pi screen. Our featured Cool Tool is the Hakko FX-901 cordless soldering iron.