This week on Maker Update: a bird with rocket power, my hovercraft is full of leaves, eating the goatee, and a simple solution to rotational positioning.

This week on Maker Update: repainting your neighborhood with a video game, a 3D printed Strandbeest that knows where it’s going, Anouk’s new LED dress, and a remote controlled Yip Yip.

I’ve published an Instructables guide showing how I made this remote controlled tricycle-riding puppet.

It was such a fun project that I’m already hard at work on an updated version and a more manageable project guide. The bill of materials alone is simply ridiculous. It’s what happens when you’re prototying and just ordering random bits and grabbing things out of your stash of whatever boards you have on hand.

But until the next version is finished, I hope this guide can offer some inspiration.