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October 15, 2026 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: car, Casino, Custom, Dashboard, Dice, Display, Enigma Machine, Eye, Ford, Graphical, GUI, Halloween, Illusion, Interface, LCD, Melting, Monster, Packaging, Peppers Ghost, Plastic, prop, Recycling, reuse, Thermal, Transforming, Upcycling, Wide

Double Wide [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: scaling your car on the X-Axis, rolling the dice with a hot hand, spooky halloween eyes, and tools to develop your custom UI.

September 3, 2026 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: 3D, ADHD, Aluminum, Armor, Can, Cardboard, Carving, Craft, crafting, Decoration, Desk, Energy Drink, EVA, Foam, furniture, futbol, Gaussian, Gaussian Splatting, Halloween, Jack-O-Lantern, Light, Low Power, Monster, pumpkin, Puppet, puppetry, Quadruped, Robot, Soccer, Tube

Cozy Home for a Chaotic Mind [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: a tall desk to help your brain, the World Cup for spider bots, Jack-o-Lanterns to last the season, and making LEDs the hard way.

February 17, 2022 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: CA glue, Contour Map, Epoxy, ESP32, Fractal, Hack, Kiri:moto, laser cut, Maker Music Festival, Mandala, mashup, Model making, Monster, Music, Plastic, Plotter, PlottyBot, Putty, schematic, Spinning, toys, Video Feedback, Weather, Weather Station

Turn, Turn, Turn [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update, a wheel-y cool weather bot, a call for maker music projects, freaky fractals, making monsters, and drawing with the PlottyBot.

October 12, 2016 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: 3D Printing, Adafruit, Animatronics, Button Banging, Chicken Wire, Controllers, Cosplay, DIY, Electronics, Frightprops, Garbage Bag, Ghost, Ghosts, Goggles, Halloween, Halloween Decorations, Haunted House, iFixit, Instructables, Inventing, Keybanging, Maker, Maker Faire, Making, Microcontroller, Monster, MyMini Factory, Neopixel, Packing Tape, Project, Props, Robotics, Scary, Thingiverse, Toolkit, Trash Bag

Maker Update #06: Garbage Ghosts & Key Bangers

This week’s Maker Update is dedicated to taking your Halloween up a notch, with tips on costume resources, cheap and easy (and scary) DIY ghosts, 3D printed cosplay props, and site recommendations for professional haunted house props and controllers.

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