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

This week on Maker Update: A building brick to surpass Metal Gear, the return of Bay Area Maker Faire, Dopp Kitts and Progress bars for daily living.

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: Human augmentation, a 100lb laptop, A crash course in CAD, Making faces, pushing plastic, and Digikey’s annual boards guide.

This week on Maker Update: cutting your lawn with lasers, a cyberpunk PC case, making 3d prints look like metal, a kumiko canoe paddle, cross infill, and getting n00ds from Adafruit.

This week on a special SiliCon edition of Maker Update a face-detecting shoulder robot friend, Victorian dress, a noisy cricket, R2 junior, wearable Gundam, walking with Wall-E, and a glove from 3D printed fabric.

This week on Maker Update: a DIY digital camera that’s made to be played with, Google’s Little Signals, dismantling cookies for science, and unlocking your computer with push-ups.

This week on Maker Update, wearable microphone jammers, reinventing retro tech, moving mirrors, 3D printed turntables, digital Super 8, and a circuit sculpture radio.

This week on Maker Update: a picture perfect dress, a 3D printer plays chess, lots of robot friends, cosmic embroidery, and a doggie duplex.

There’s an Instructables page up now, collecting all of the work on my cocktail machine for the 2020 Cocktail Robotics Grand Challenge.

I call it the VK-01 Off-World Bartender. It’s a Blade Runner-inspired machine that’s a mix of sci-fi and retro. Every detail I can think of is collected in the Instructable — every line of code, wiring diagram, and 3D design.

I hope it can inspire you to build your own cocktail machine. It’s been a challenging project, but one of my most rewarding yet. It was also a great motivation for becoming more comfortable with coding, 3D design, and exploring the possibilities of working with other makers and artists. I wouldn’t take back a minute of it.