This month on Maker Update: A Robot Xylophone, Adafruit’s Open for Business, Painting with Light, Teletyping with Clue, Texting with Blinka, and the BBC MicroBit grows a tail.

This week on Maker Update, rolling your own D-O droid, a heart sculpture that checks your pulse, a handheld sniffer, a magic chef, indoor swing, pferd files, and I’ll explain what this is.

Tool: Black Hot Melt Glue Sticks
https://amzn.to/2xzt2jX

Related tools mentioned:

Surebonder PRO2-100 100-Watt High Temperature Industrial Glue Gun
https://amzn.to/2LOprSg

Transcript:

It’s time for another Cool Tool review. This time I’m going to show you guys black hot glue sticks. A pack of these cost me $8 on Amazon. I’m going to show you why they’re useful. And if you want to pick some up, using the Amazon link in the description helps support my videos and the Cool Tools blog.

This week on Maker Update, the Adam Savage soldering iron station, Pigeon robotics, cat food control, glowing black plastic, giant LEDs, and the good kind of Fubar. 

This week on Maker Update: dumpster fires, Circuit Python V, flying toasters, cyber santa, personal soundtracks, gift guides, turtles, and soccer tic-tac-toe.

This week on Maker Update, a giant carbon dioxide meter to measure the air quality, making 3D printer filament in space, an urchin robot, popsicle stick plotter, animatronics, a projection mask, and a primer on paint brushes.

Tool:
Pocket Microscope
http://amzn.to/2BzkdF9

Previous Cool Tool Review:
https://kk.org/cooltools/pocket-microscope/

Transcript:
I’m Donald Bell for Cool Tools and in this video we’re taking a look at a pocket microscope. I picked this up for around $6 on Amazon and by using the link in the description to get one for yourself, you help to support my videos and the Cool Tools blog.

This week on Maker Update, windshield wipers that sync with music, the Arduino IDE goes pro, TensorFlow goes tiny, Bob’s flip-top workshop, Pi goes cyberpunk, butt joints and blow torches.

This week on Maker Update, Halloween spider on wheels, a mini printer from Prusa, Arduino fog machine, robot centipede, what’s inside LED neon, and 3D printed press brakes.

This week on Maker Update: Everything is awesome with this 3d printed lamp, over 2000 guides, a Xenomorph Candy Bucket, a creepy beating heart, mobile coding, keychords, IoT security and crazy cartoon eyes.