This week on Maker Update: a garden of inflatable delights, a tiling wall of light, combat garden gnomes and telling stories with light. We’re at Maker Faire Bay Area 2026.

This week on Maker Update, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out, a sip of sadness, clocking infinity, and inverse kinematics for tentacles.

This week on Maker Update: an instrument that rules, street music, a mouse that raves, and a couple new boards worth knowing about.

This week on Maker Update: a stick chopper for your chopsticks, an AI duck that sings, a Tamagotchi that dies when you doomscroll, and an RC bike that keeps its balance.

This week on Maker Update: a tall desk to help your brain, the World Cup for spider bots, Jack-o-Lanterns to last the season, and making LEDs the hard way.

This week on Maker Update: a Cyberpunk servo mask, retro computing for prizes, designing dragons, and Formula 1 on a dress.

This week on Maker Update: an e-ink computer to track your projects, a notifier for your online shops, a spooky lantern, and maybe the best WLED controller for hub75 matrices.

This week on Maker Update: a box for translating conversations offline, a dress for translating movement into light, a clock for translating light into time, and a toy for translating your voice into gibberish.

This week on Maker Update: your phone as a pet, your grandpa in a fish, engineering with air, and a box for your digital footprint.