This week on Maker Update, sleeping in the canopy, Cricut free at last, String art, Midi Fighters, kinematics and building your first mechanical keyboard.

This week on Maker Update, a stargazing microcontroller, frictionless gears, voxelated displays, hand lettering, and a Hakko soldering station on the cheap.

This week on Maker Update, Astable Exhalation, Raspberry Pi 400, FlexFrog, defextiles, and pepper’s ghost in your book nook.

This week on Maker Update, a circadian sound sculpture, TensorFlow for the ESP32, NVIDIA buys ARM, flexball, walking triangles, and tapping threads.

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 hover board for witches, lasercut zodiak, a starburst display, thread plotting, wobbling oloids, and interactive trees.

This week on Maker Update: Smokin’ cosplay, a password ring, secret messages, a PCB starship, 3D Printed Furniture, Project Egress, and Happy Birthday Hackaday!

This week on Maker Update, a mechanical tulip, the E3D print slicer, a LEGO walkie talkie Twitch switch, 3D printing with DiResta, a triaxial clock, Laura Kampf’s swing bike, and turning pixels to gcode.

This is the Hakko FX-901 portable soldering iron (available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2sh7g0t). It runs off 4 AA batteries that you can swap out really fast with this removable cartridge design. I use rechargeables in mine and I get over an hour of use out of it before I notice the temperature drops. Alkaline batteries will run hotter, but not last as long.