This Week on Maker Update: “Dude, where’s my room?”, losing all your marbles, cardboard couture, and from telegraphs to QR codes.

This week on Maker Update: a cosplay helmet with product-grade design, Halloween for profit, a robot for golf, and WLED lighting design for your yard.

This week on Maker Update: projection mapping the easy way, 3 Halloween projects for the price of one, rewiring old lamps, and firing up your meditations.

This week on Maker Update: repainting your neighborhood with a video game, a 3D printed Strandbeest that knows where it’s going, Anouk’s new LED dress, and a remote controlled Yip Yip.

This week on Maker Update: a modular cyberdeck, a clock that runs on marbles, a Faz-Wrench, and a backpack for bots.

This week on Maker Update: look ma, no jumpers, an E-Book with no strings attached, the return of the keytar, and a pinball machine with no brain.

This week on Maker Update: Bob’s bobble head, machine learning for quirky droids, a laptop with a side of soldering iron, and an easy recipe for haunted mirrors.

This week on Maker Update: the art of conversation, Halloween contest season, a tombstone with a twist, and a bright idea on pet portraits.

This week on Maker Update: the Echo you really want, low riding’s new low, and the Huggy Wuggy you may need to make for Halloween.

I’ve published an Instructables guide showing how I made this remote controlled tricycle-riding puppet.

It was such a fun project that I’m already hard at work on an updated version and a more manageable project guide. The bill of materials alone is simply ridiculous. It’s what happens when you’re prototying and just ordering random bits and grabbing things out of your stash of whatever boards you have on hand.

But until the next version is finished, I hope this guide can offer some inspiration.