This week on Maker Update: the art of conversation, Halloween contest season, a tombstone with a twist, and a bright idea on pet portraits.

This week on Maker Update, AI shadow stories, your own retro cable TV simulator, a relaxing cosplay project, and building your own toy robot.

This week on Maker Update: the Echo you really want, low riding’s new low, and the Huggy Wuggy you may need to make for Halloween.

This week on Maker Update: 90s toy tech with an AI upgrade, return of the cyberdecks, body bots, a Rubik’s cube that solves itself, and a pickup truck that writes.

This week on Maker Update: a workstation set to exterminate, a boat powered by ionic thrust, how to use an oscilloscope, tool organization, space fishing, and cracking the code of QWOP.

This week on Maker Update: a descriptive nose, a scrappy gatekeeper, laser cut Crankies, and never ending stories.

This week on Maker Update: an alarmingly capable hexapod, an LED kaleidoscope, a ChatGPT teddy bear, and a hackable Pi watch.

This week on Maker Update: beats with a side of AI, Hackaday Prize, tiny lightsabers, Furby backpacks, foldable rovers, MIDI Lyres, and new gear from Arduino and Prusa.

This week on Maker Update: a maritime matrix, an LED katana, a Nerf dart that fires itself, and a floppy disc with its own file browser.

This week on Maker Update: putting Spam to work, LED filament for your finger, pencil sculpture, and a See & Say makeover.