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.
Babelfish [Maker Update]
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.
Soul File [Maker Update]
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.
Paperback Writer [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: writing a novel the hard way, a camera to get you kicked off of Instagram, a modern go kart in period attire and 3d printing for astrophotography.
Projects from Open Sauce 2026 [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update we’re at Open Sauce 2026 checking out a T-Shirt Cannon you can ride on, a robot for your Boba, glowing moiré, and a chicken gimbal without the chicken.
Fool of a Took [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: speak friend and enter, a great big project about one of the smallest city states, a robot to detect robots, and casting your own RC tires.