Double Wide [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: scaling your car on the X-Axis, rolling the dice with a hot hand, spooky halloween eyes, and tools to develop your custom UI.
Flip Out! [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: flipping into flow state, keeping time with cardboard, flying aces, and open Chompis.
Maker Faire Bay Area 2026 [Maker Update]
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.
Aperture Science [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out, a sip of sadness, clocking infinity, and inverse kinematics for tentacles.
Playing by the Rules [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: an instrument that rules, street music, a mouse that raves, and a couple new boards worth knowing about.
The Maker Update Searchable Project Archive
Hey all. In honor of the first 500 episodes of this show I’ve created a searchable database of all the projects and tips included in Maker Update over the past 10 years. You can find it here, and also up in the navigation bar at the top of the Maker Project Lab blog.
Chop Chop [Maker Update]
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.
Cozy Home for a Chaotic Mind [Maker Update]
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.
Visor Visions [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a Cyberpunk servo mask, retro computing for prizes, designing dragons, and Formula 1 on a dress.
Pocket Secretary [Maker Update]
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.