In My Lane, Flourishing [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: bowling 300 in your kitchen, knights of the Canadian tuxedo, a dimpled display, and a control board for tiny bots.
Take it for a Spin [Maker Update]
This Week on Maker Update: a top that won’t stop, overmolding your 3d printed parts, a twerking bot, and a guide to finishing your projects, no matter what they are.
Dialing It In [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a music player that goes back to basics, a self-balancing robot you can 3D print, and a new spin on game controllers.
The Future We Forgot To Make [Maker Update]
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.
Feedback Looper [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: virtualizing your detents, the Raspberry Pi Pico gets a W, holographic jewelry, a time-warping Walkman, silent steppers and crafting a tiny miracle.
Where’s My Jetpack? [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, rolling your own jetpack, machine learning for money, motion controlled hadouken, invisible roommates, infrared mirrors, and mechanical wings.
Mad Mask [Maker Update #193]
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.
Witchcraft [Maker Update #192]
This week on Maker Update, a hover board for witches, lasercut zodiak, a starburst display, thread plotting, wobbling oloids, and interactive trees.
Restoring Oakland’s 1956 Wonder-Go-Round
On this blog, I get the chance to explore my love of how people create and invent using new technology. In many ways, Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California runs completely against the theme of this blog. It is one of the earliest theme parks in the United States, seemingly frozen in time for generations, and what little technology it has is about as analog as it gets.
Golden Holdies [Maker Update #119]
This week on Maker Update, a servo word clock, the 2019 Hackaday prize, a phone that only plays hold music, organizing parts with google assistant, cheap robotics, and punching holes.