This week on Maker Update: vintage gaming for your tree, a snowflake made from LED noodles, making for fun, and the Alpakka open source gamepad.

This week on Maker Update: a new spin on an old label maker, making skateboards from recycled plastic, a tapeless tape deck, and an eyepatch-controlled prosthetic tail.

This week on Maker Update, a magic mirror, Norwegian arm, pixels for your pocket, and dialing for songs.

This week on Maker Update, Ian Charnas takes on Mike Tyson, a bike that’s possessed, Janksy, and cooking up a Pepper’s ghost.

This week on Maker Update: building a prop that can withstand real lightning, a glowing pomodoro timer, a plywood air hose reel, tracking running goals with DIY electronics, a selfie stick that makes you frown, DIY x-rays, satisfying tool restorations, and making robots from everyday objects.

This week on Maker Update, a pint-sized Pi flight sim, the Pleasurebot 9000, a Fallout guitar, a crawling ballbot, an RFID Spotify player, bending plastic, and hands-free handles.

This week on Maker Update, a plotter painter, a vintage camera flash clock, a rotary cellphone, a breadboard bender, and foaming filament.

This week on Maker Update, a Nintendo made from wood, painting with Skittles, a photochromic clock, a camera that looks into the past with an instant replay, and a cabinet for curing 3D prints.

This week on Maker Update, I’ll take a look back at some of my favorite projects from 2017 and show you a cordless hot glue gun for hot glue on the go. This week’s Cool Tool is a Ryobi Cordless Glue Gun.

This week on Maker Update, Blade Runner binoculars, setbacks at Glowforge, custom zipper pulls, JOY pads, and colorized laser engraving. This week’s Cool Tool is the Canary Corrugated Cardboard Cutter.