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: voice activated Pikachu, recreational macrodata refinement, and an optical illusion you can 3D print.

This week on Maker Update: cyberpunk samurai, rolling your own tape echo, sound reactive lighting, all the filaments, and a closer look at salt batteries.

This week on Maker Update: flipping the script on phone notifications, a surprise ending for Ivan’s marble clock, moving mirrors, and synchronized shoelaces.

This week on Maker Update: a parachuting robot, a less-is-more approach to 3d printing, sliding tables, pixel cufflinks, impossible overhangs, and nine ways to over-engineer a drill press.

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: putting Spam to work, LED filament for your finger, pencil sculpture, and a See & Say makeover.

This week on Maker Update: robots at your command, the best everyday carry holster, getting the most out of a cheap miter gauge, wireless LEDs, singing sculptures, and a rotary phone for your Zoom calls.

This week on Maker Update: wood that you can see through, 3d printing at warp speed, doorbells that shout at your neighbors, plastic milkshakes, camp tables and maybe the world’s worst drawbot.

This week on Maker Update, making tea with a robot, walking through radio waves, an Excitebike shed, fiber optic wings, and 3D printed googly eyes.