The Chompsaw – A Powerful Tool for Kids’ Creation

Kausi and Max, Chompshop’s young co-founders, revealed how the Chompsaw was created. Their product addresses a key need in children’s creativity. Despite many DIY kids’ projects, safe power tools are still missing. The Chompsaw is a safe yet effective tool that lets kids fully build and enjoy their DIY projects. Chompshop’s vision, the company that has created the Chompsaw, is to help children get hands-on with STEM skills and learn innovation through play. That is the big picture. But the...

January 5, 2026Uncategorized, 0 Comments
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Open Source Hardware Certifications for December 2025

The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware.  Whenever you see the certification logo, you know that the certified hardware meets this standard.

OpenCPC

IUD US002791 Photo by OpenAeros Continuing the trend around Healthware projects joining the certification database in various forms, the OpenCPC is a scientific instrument for measuring air...

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Making Mayor Clayton’s WonderLab

“Dad, I don’t want to go to trick-or-treating, I want to stay in the WonderLab!” When I overheard an 11-year-old say these words, I knew we’d made something special with Mayor Clayton’s WonderLab. Brooklee, the incredible kid who said these words, was on her Make-A-Wish trip to Central Florida with her family and staying on the property at Give Kids The World Village, an 89-acre storybook resort where children with critical illnesses and their families spend weeklong, cost-free vacations. Brooklee...

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Episode #818 – 1946: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2

Air Week: January 5-11, 2026

1946: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2

The “Juke In The Back” once again puts our old Rockola Jukebox in the forefront as we spotlight the biggest Rhythm & Blues jukebox hits of 1946. This week, in part 2, we’ll focus on the second half of the year, featuring three #1s from Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. During 1946, Jordan held the top spot on the Race Record Chart for an incredible...

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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries

Arduino Team — January 2nd, 2026 Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they do still need to be started and that is easier said than done when you’ve got a wailing baby in your arms. That’s why Manivannan created this edge AI-powered system that automatically starts a bottle prepping machine when it hears a baby crying. Manivannan designed this project to work with a Tommee Tippee...

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Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2025: Business, New Games, Top 10 Posts & More

Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2025, our annual rundown of arcade happenings across various bases. As well as the usual top 10 posts and content at the end of the post, here you will find our summaries of how things have gone for the site in general, a state of the business side, trade shows, new games and more. It’s been a mixed year overall with some downs, but also ups, so let’s take a look…

December 31, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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Lightweaver – Illuminating Museums and Festivals

This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. In 8th grade, Todd Moyer fell in love with making after combining a shop class assignment — a little gadget that varied a lightbulb’s voltage in response to audio signals — with his home stereo and some Christmas lights, turning his room into a disco club. “The exhilaration I felt was not just from pretty lights and music, but the feeling of empowerment that came...

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Alan-1 Begins Shipping Gravitar: Recharged Arcade

Barring a last second announcement from anyone else, we appear to have our final arcade release of 2025. Alan-1 has begun shipping out the arcade version of Atari’s Gravitar: Recharged to interested parties. Let’s take a look.

Gravitar – A Brief History

The original Gravitar was designed by Mike Hally, released by Atari in August 1982. As a unique variation on their uber-popular Asteroids, it gained notoriety as one of the most difficult arcade games...

December 31, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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Location Watch December 2025: New Arcades Open In Time For 2026

Welcome to the last 2025 edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers brand new arcade locations which have opened all over the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations we hear about, but thanks to various readers, our own research on social media, and other arcade news sites like RePlay Magazine and InterGame Online, we do our best at making it comprehensive. If you missed the news on our previous Location Watch posts...

December 30, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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