Episode #794 – Atlantic Records, Pt. 1 – 1947-49
Air Week: July 21-27, 2025
Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More
RAS2025-07-19T17:39:29+00:00Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts which focus on quick news pieces from around the wonderful world of arcades & pinball. We generally aim to publish these on the weekend so that you have something to read about them. As mentioned before news has been slow in the dog days of Summer, but this should round up everything we’ve missed over the past few weeks. Onward:
Bowl Expo 2025 Updates
To start things off,...Alan-1 Launches Missile Command: Recharged Arcade
RAS2025-07-19T02:27:50+00:00It’s been 45 years since Atari originally released the iconic Missile Command to arcades (released in June 1980) and in all of that time, it’s the only iteration of the game to have graced arcade game rooms – until now. Alan-1 Inc., one of our sponsors here and local to me, have released the game, which they are debuting at California Extreme 2025 tomorrow. Let’s take a quick look into it.
Missile Command:...
From WonderLab to Kickstarter: The Small World of Garner Holt’s Animatronic Songbird Kit
RAS2025-07-18T21:09:21+00:00Just over a year ago, during the grand opening of WonderLab at Give Kids The World Village, Dale and I first saw an interactive fabrication and robotics activity that would later become the Garner Holt Animatronic Songbird Mini STEAM Build Kit. Last week, I stumbled across this hands-on robotics project on Kickstarter. Then the communication crossfire started, and connections were made! As covered in Make: Things newsletter (Orlando’s WonderLab: A New Kind...
Compass CNC Heads Forward
RAS2025-07-18T20:00:00+00:00CNC machinery and hand tools are often at two ends of the spectrum when it comes to woodworking. CNC machines offer precision and complexity, though usually at the cost of bulky equipment and, well, money. Hand tools offer affordability and flexibility at the cost of tedious mastery. What if we could have the best of both worlds? We started building Compass CNC with that goal in mind — an open source CNC router that fits in your hands, giving you...
Why is Open Source Hardware Not Working for 3D Printers?
RAS2025-07-18T18:00:00+00:00This report appeared in the Make Things newsletter. This newsletter lives on the web at makethings.make.co. Above: Marleen Stikker of Waag Futurelab referenced Make:’s motto “If you can’t open it…” in her talk “Maker culture is the basis for strategic autonomy.” FAB25 was held July 4–1 in the cities of Brno and Prague in Czechia. Organized by the Fab Foundation, the conference moves to a different city each year and brings together many from the Fab Lab Network,...
July 18, 2025RASUncategorizedevent, fablab, Maker News, Massimo Banzi, Open Source, open source hardware, patents, Prusa0 Comments
Review: Algolaser Pixi Engraver Handles the Basics
RAS2025-07-17T16:00:00+00:00Manufacturer: Algolaser Price: $270 as tested (5W, black enclosure) URL: https://algolaser.com/products/algolaser-pixi-smart-laser-engraver-with-enclosure?variant=51274697343283
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Lasers are great. They speed up prototyping and make “pew pew” sounds. They work with materials more befitting a final product than 3D printers, but you’re free to use cheap paper and cardboard for experimenting. They’ve come a long way down from the $20K of 20 years ago when our first Ultimate Tools article came out. But high-power desktop laser cutters are still outside the...July 17, 2025RASUncategorizedDigital Fabrication, Laser Cutting, Laser Etching, Maker News, Review, Tools0 Comments
Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)
RAS2025-07-16T20:46:45+00:00While it’s been a slow news period for the summer, that doesn’t mean that nothing it happening behind-the-scenes within the arcade world. We have three games on test to discuss today, known as “location tests” in arcade industry jargon. It’s our way of saying “beta test”, although in some instances a concept might be more in the alpha stages. Those three games, which we’ll cover in this order, are: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco) NEW!! Pop’n Music (Konami) Forklift Frenzy (Bay...
Grindcore by Tube Time
RAS2025-07-16T16:00:00+00:00This article is from Make Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. When your function generator dies, you never know what you’ll find inside. Maybe it will be a blown tantalum capacitor, or maybe it will be an ongoing art project with followers all over social media. In his case, engineer Eric Schlaepfer found both. He wanted to see if there was an obvious failure point...
Sega Amusements & 501 Entertainment Bring Interactive Mini Golf To Market
RAS2025-07-15T17:53:59+00:00A few years ago, Sega Amusements broadened their horizons into social entertainment by partnering with another UK-based company by the name of 501 Entertainment, inking a deal to bring out their augmented reality-incorporating SMARTS Interactive Darts system. Now, the next fruits of that relationship are coming to the market: Interactive Mini Golf. Though not a typical arcade product per se, with Sega Amusements attached it can sit alongside them nicely, so let’s take a look at what...
