Bending the Rules [Maker Update #182]
This week on Maker Update, a robotic golf club, cheating at Scrabble, a tetrahedron for your head, a really long gripper, and see-through Arduino.
Pi-way to the Danger Zone [Maker Update #178]
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.
Chocolate Volume [Maker Update #177]
This week on Maker Update, a face-tracking chocolate launcher, Teensy 4.1, a Pi-powered pupper, a flaming lamp, a steampunk tub, a people detecting mask, and a VHS videodrome.
Bounce With Me [Maker Update #165]
This week on Maker Update, an octo-bouncer, what’s up with Maker Faire Bay Area, a Lego robot rickshaw, Diresta’s bandsaw bot, a 3D printed snorkel, nibblers and nunchucks.
Side Iron [Maker Update #157]
This week on Maker Update, the Adam Savage soldering iron station, Pigeon robotics, cat food control, glowing black plastic, giant LEDs, and the good kind of Fubar.
Jon-A-Tron’s 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet
Occasionally there are projects that hang at the top of my “someday” list and refuse to budge, nagging me until I tackle them. Jonathan (Jon-A-Tron) Odom’s 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet project on Instructables is one of these projects.
When I started Maker Project Lab, the whole idea was that I was going to be rebuilding, evaluating, and elevating awesome projects that makers have shared online. It’s a process that was part of my job as a Projects Editor at Make: magazine, and it seemed like a cool thing I could continue doing. I mean, isn’t that part of what the Maker Movement is all about — sharing what you’ve done and inspiring people to build their own version and take it someplace new?
Needless to say, if you’ve been following this blog, you know that I got wonderfully sidetracked by making my own weekly show and reviewing tools. What little spare time I have left for actually making my own projects is typically sucked in to paid original project content, or personal projects for which a lot of the appeal is selfishly chipping away at something that’s just for me.
Instant Replay [Maker Update #132]
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.
End of an Era [Maker Update #128]
This week on Maker Update, a robot with a staring problem, the end of Maker Media, holding rainbows, a robot dating simulator, DaVinci machines, a Pi movie tracker, and surface mount soldering with sand.
Bring the Heat [Maker Update #127 Adafruit Edition]
This week on Maker Update, a brass thread injector, drag and drop Arduino storage, PyGamer, robot fish, a blacklight parasol, a hand-crank GIF player, and a 7-segment circuit sculpture.
Ready Player Thumb [Maker Update #123]
This week on Maker Update, a one thumb entertainment system, using an LED matrix as a scanner, LED jewelry, and a rubber chicken powered camera slider.