This week on Maker Update: A plant that gives you your life back, a sound sculpture that’s the bee’s knees, breathing life into animatronics, and turning purge poops into jewelry.

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 mechanical tulip, the E3D print slicer, a LEGO walkie talkie Twitch switch, 3D printing with DiResta, a triaxial clock, Laura Kampf’s swing bike, and turning pixels to gcode.

This week on Maker Update, felted electronics, new 3D printers, wire bending, an angry woodpecker complaint button, a big head box, 3D printed tulle necklace, cordless sawzall, perfect painting, Tinkercad scribbling and Maker Faires. This week’s Cool Tool is a cordless reciprocating saw.