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 stargazing microcontroller, frictionless gears, voxelated displays, hand lettering, and a Hakko soldering station on the cheap.

This week on Maker Update, catch with a robot, Arduino’s IoT cloud, sorting screws, making fabric, exploding darth, and the anti-drawing machine.

This week on Maker Update, a magic bag of NeoPixie dust, my #1 video and photography tool, hydrodipping 3D prints, MagPi 59, making art for 3D glasses, and maker faires. My Cool Tool this time is the Manfrotto Magic Arm and Super Clamp kit.