This week on Maker Update: a garden of inflatable delights, a tiling wall of light, combat garden gnomes and telling stories with light. We’re at Maker Faire Bay Area 2026.

This week on Maker Update: your phone as a pet, your grandpa in a fish, engineering with air, and a box for your digital footprint.

This week on Maker Update we’re at Open Sauce 2026 checking out a T-Shirt Cannon you can ride on, a robot for your Boba, glowing moiré, and a chicken gimbal without the chicken.

This week on Maker Update: speak friend and enter, a great big project about one of the smallest city states, a robot to detect robots, and casting your own RC tires.

This week on Maker Update: a world in the palm of your hand, Modulinos for motors, a brass helicopter, and a wooden rocket.

This week on Maker Update: games made just for you, AI robots without the code, screen addiction as a toy, and an offline AI chat that runs on human power.

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

This week on Maker Update: Japanese demon juggling, more AI for Raspberry Pi, reality-blocking glasses, lighting up the RF spectrum, and 1-dimensional Space Invaders.

This week on Maker Update: A plant that gives you your life back, a sound sculpture that’s the bee’s knees, breathing life into animatronics, and turning purge poops into jewelry.

This week on Maker Update: a shady electric table, here’s looking at you, beat juggling, and a look into the infinite.