This week on Maker Update: bringing origami to life, Lego lets go of Mindstorms, taking your dragon up a notch, pedaling puppets, and waterproofing your mermaid tech.

This week on Maker Update, a round-up of the best pandemic themed projects of 2020, and some of the maker trends that defined the year.

This week on Maker Update, an attractive clock, robots on the ceiling, Micro:Bit gets an upgrade, a cylon scooter, pocket model kit, a box of life, and OLED fangs.

This week on Maker Update, a mask launcher, Hackaday U, a Star Wars book nook, FlexBot, quarter-scale arcade, DeWalt’s welding table, and embossing comes to Fusion.

This week on Maker Update, a robot dog for attacking poison ivy, spray-on LEDs, Festo’s robot bird, a Pi-powered pet feeder, forging a sword, and mapping LEDs on a mask.

This week on Maker Update, a face-tracking chocolate launcher, Teensy 4.1, a Pi-powered pupper, a flaming lamp, a steampunk tub, a people detecting mask, and a VHS videodrome.

This week on Maker Update, 20 seconds of Spotify from your soap pump, MIT’s $100 open source ventilator, safe tools for kids, and the Hackaday calendar of virtual events.

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.

This week on Maker Update: A shouting pumpkin, Build your own Feather module, be goose do crimes, dripping skills, boiling cauldrons and open source e-readers.

This week on Maker Update, a flip-out mic for your machine learning pocket project, a shark mask that moves when you talk, a light-up sound board, adding Neopixels to a backpack, and the Circuit Playground Proto Gizmo.