This week on Maker Update: a garden of inflatable delights, a tiling wall of light, combat garden gnomes and telling stories with light. We’re at Maker Faire Bay Area 2026.

This week on Maker Update: an LED synthesizer, desktop time travel, a new perspective on a ball-balancing platform, and Le Spatula 3000.

This week on Maker Update: Tyler and Donald take a look back at a handful of their favorite projects of the year.

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.

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: a low resolution display you can’t take your eyes off of, turning trash to treasure, a snap-fit cyberdeck, and the internet of solder paste.

This week on Maker Update: a can to catch your trash, a new nano from Arduino, an LED sculpture that records sunlight, and a robot dog that’s all wound up.

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: coin-op robot art, an all-terrain flexi bot, LED runway fashion, and a fiber optic subway map.

This week on Maker Update: promoting pawns, your life in pixels, a 1-button microwave, and weeding out the bad wires.