This week on Maker Update: an LED synthesizer, desktop time travel, a new perspective on a ball-balancing platform, and Le Spatula 3000.

This week on Maker Update, a plasma-brained pet robot, keeping cool with cryogenics, a miniature recreation of Terminator 2, and hosting your own software to cut the cord on big tech.

This week on Maker Update: on a wing and a prayer, making your own RAM in a shed, corrugated starships, and indestructible PLA parts.

This week on Maker Update: flying faders, data dispensers, tiny trucks, walkie talkies, and winking neon.

This week on Maker Update: a camper bike for abandoned railways, the Furbys take Eurovision, keeping a cool head, and getting rid of old tools you don’t use.

This week on Maker Update: a screen-accurate lightsaber replica you can actually use, making a better tape measure, tips for perfect bridges, and a drone that never needs to come down.

For this week’s Maker Update: a Superman robot made from plastic, machines to help you work out, a flying LED display, and animatronic nightmare fuel for your Halloween decorations.

This week on Maker Update: plastic fantastic, a mechanism for every page, an art studio for the road, and more electronics books than you can shake a stick at.

This week on Maker Update: building a better bird, a lamp to help you sleep, a box full of spooky sounds, and seven tips for better combat bots.

This week on Maker Update: voice activated Pikachu, recreational macrodata refinement, and an optical illusion you can 3D print.