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, woodworking for Sith lords, Simone’s dog takes a selfie, wings of steel, a wiper motor coffee grinder, and Russian crowbars.

This week on Maker Update, our robot overlords get a new, terrifying mouth, the Pi camera goes deluxe, Maker Faire goes virtual, mirror inspiration, and singing toilet paper.

This week on Maker Update, a beating heart, robot dreams, giant numbers, real-time object tracking, puffy bricks, and HackSpace goes half-price.

This week on Maker Update, my picks for the Top 5 most year-defining projects of 2019.

This week on Maker Update, animating ferrofluid, fabricating a landspeeder, advanced animatronic eyes, Adam Savage hardware rack, workbench mods from Laura Kampf, and shrinking molds with the Crafsman.

This week on Maker Update, a giant carbon dioxide meter to measure the air quality, making 3D printer filament in space, an urchin robot, popsicle stick plotter, animatronics, a projection mask, and a primer on paint brushes.

This week on Maker Update, a Roomba for your whiteboard, a wearable for people who talk too much, a geometric planter, Arduino for Nerf, and mashing up code with Becky Stern.

This week on Maker Update, magnetic animatronics, a photo frame with a dark side, a conductive paper dragon, keyblades, a Star Trek desk, and gaming with a PyBadge.

This week on Maker Update, I’ll take a look back at some of my favorite projects from 2017 and show you a cordless hot glue gun for hot glue on the go. This week’s Cool Tool is a Ryobi Cordless Glue Gun.