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 turtle that writes, turning plastic into gold, electronic origami, and profiling your printer filament.

This week on Maker Update: an AI-powered dream vault, traditional Japanese woodworking for your 3D printer, a Cyberpunk cosplay remix with a custom steel helmet, and a project to give your computer the mechanical clacks and dings of a typewriter.

This week on Maker Update: a robotic videographer, animating your insides, a new kind of printer, and sending ChatGPT to its room to think about what it’s done.

This week on Maker Update: voice activated Pikachu, recreational macrodata refinement, and an optical illusion you can 3D print.

This week on Maker Update: a life sized toy boat, a coffee maker that runs Crysis, styrene astromechs, and an animation with all the feels.

This week on Maker Update: gizmos and greeblies galore, a sidesaddle bicycle, t-shirt quilts and SLA screen printing.

This week on Maker Update: capturing lightning in a bottle, a finger-tapping automaton, making your perfect sketchbook, tough relays, hand-wavey details, and turning a logo into an animated sculpture.

+Show Notes [Maker Update Ep.333]+

=Project of the Week=

0:31
Firefly Lantern by Electroboom
https://youtu.be/iJGPMMMn8VU

=More Projects=

2:57
Typing Automaton by Uri Turchman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA-KpGYG83E

3:49
LED Wave Array LuLabs
https://lulabs.net/electronics/ledwave/

4:30
Turning a Logo into an Animated Sculpture by JBV Creative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKzX03VIRgs

=Tips & Tools=

5:31
Making Sketchbooks by Eric Strebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtqqxQ9RcBE

6:14
Tough Relay by Digital Loggers
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5718

6:46
Fantastic Fabrics by Kitty Yeung, Jen Colstillo and bleeptrack
https://makezine.com/projects/design-your-own-fantastic-fabrics/

7:36
Keep Your Clamps Oiled by Jimmy Diresta
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2TRLtC_RCfY

=Digi-Key Spotlight=

8:00
What is Matter? by Shawn Hymel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIEfih9bl0

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, a 15 horsepower 3d print, a solar powered art bot, turning good ideas into great ones, flip top coffee tables, and putting CAD into the Blender.