This week on Maker Update: retro future-perfect computing that never was, a Need for Speed mini-map for your car, a robot made of phone parts, and the glorious use of LED acrylic.

This week on Maker Update: robots that glide, robots that walk, a bouncy bike, and a blade that’s bewitched.

This week on Maker Update: A plant that gives you your life back, a sound sculpture that’s the bee’s knees, breathing life into animatronics, and turning purge poops into jewelry.

This week on Maker Update: picking through the pieces, the Arduino-M5Stack collab, finding balance, smarter ping pong, and down the rabbit hole with WLED.

This week on Maker Update: a screen-accurate lightsaber replica you can actually use, making a better tape measure, tips for perfect bridges, and a drone that never needs to come down.

This week on Maker Update: a shady electric table, here’s looking at you, beat juggling, and a look into the infinite.

This week on Maker Update, making the world’s fastest drone, a convenient cage for your soul, a deluxe beetle, and the return of the EggBot.

For this week’s Maker Update: a Superman robot made from plastic, machines to help you work out, a flying LED display, and animatronic nightmare fuel for your Halloween decorations.

This week on Maker Update: building your own submarine drone, Qualcomm buys Arduino, an animatronic virtual pet, a Clap Trap that claps back, and a mirror with a message.

This week on Maker Update: plastic fantastic, a mechanism for every page, an art studio for the road, and more electronics books than you can shake a stick at.