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Donald Bell Maker Update: Chop Chop

By Maker.io Staff

This week on Maker Update: a stick chopper for your chopsticks, an AI duck that sings, a Tamagotchi that dies when you doomscroll, and an RC bike that keeps its balance.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Cozy Home for a Chaotic Mind

By Maker.io Staff

This week on Maker Update: a tall desk to help your brain, the World Cup for spider bots, Jack-o-Lanterns to last the season, and making LEDs the hard way.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Visor Visions

By Maker.io Staff

This week on Maker Update: a Cyberpunk servo mask, retro computing for prizes, designing dragons, and Formula 1 on a dress.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Pocket Secretary

By Maker.io Staff

This week on Maker Update: an e-ink computer to track your projects, a notifier for your online shops, a spooky lantern, and maybe the best WLED controller for hub75 matrices.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Babelfish

By Maker.io Staff

This week on Maker Update: a box for translating conversations offline, a dress for translating movement into light, a clock for translating light into time, and a toy for translating your voice into gibberish.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Soul File

By Maker.io Staff

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.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Paperback Writer

By Maker.io Staff

This week on Maker Update: writing a novel the hard way, a camera to get you kicked off of Instagram, a modern go kart in period attire and 3d printing for astrophotography.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Projects from Open Sauce 2026

By Maker.io Staff

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.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Fool of a Took

By Maker.io Staff

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.

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Patterns in the Pixels

By Maker.io Staff

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

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Donald Bell Maker Update: Portable Worlds

By Maker.io Staff

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

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Donald Bell Maker: Checkmate, humans!

By Maker.io Staff

This week on Maker Update: pawn takes… a walk?, a manual controlled pick & place machine, a brain you can program, and wearing your 3d prints.