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Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World
RAS2025-08-01T02:41:30+00:00Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened anywhere on the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations that we hear about, but thanks to various readers, and other arcade news sites like RePlay Magazine and InterGame Online, we do our best at keeping this comprehensive. If you missed the news on our previous Location Watch posts from this year: Location...
Earthion EXA LABEL Blasts Its Way Into Arcades
RAS2025-07-31T05:06:36+00:00Yuzo Koshiro’s latest piece of gaming art is now available for players to enjoy, but not just as a game on home platforms – an enhanced version is available for arcades known as Earthion EXA Label. Read on.
Earthion
For those who are as yet unaware, Earthion was started as a shoot ’em up targeting the beloved Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, it being the console where Yuzo Koshiro gained much of his notoriety with titles like Streets...Ideas Dance At Maker Faire Hannover 2025
RAS2025-07-30T22:21:48+00:00INSTAGRAM I YOUTUBE I FACEBOOK I WEBSITE Over 1,000 makers will showcase their creative projects across more than 230 booths, transforming the Hannover Congress Centrum into a playground for tech, tinkering, and imagination. From 3D printing and robotics to laser cutting, microcontrollers, AI, and sustainable tech—every corner of the maker movement is represented. Many exhibitors are driven by pure passion, while others use the Faire as a launchpad for startups. Open-source thinking and collaborative learning...
Galaxy of Droidsmiths — Star Wars Droid Builders
RAS2025-07-30T16:00:00+00:00Longtime Make: readers — and visitors to Maker Faires around the world — know how much we love R2-D2, that cheeky little astromech droid from Star Wars. We profiled the R2 Builders Group way back in our second issue, and showed how to build your own life-sized, remote controlled R2-D2 in 2016. Since then, the Star Wars universe has only grown, and the makers who create their own replicas and custom...
Could these VR haptic gloves replace human touch?
RAS2025-07-29T17:38:59+00:00Arduino Team — July 29th, 2025 We’re seeing a substantial turn towards online social interaction replacing in-person social interaction — especially among the younger generations. That was exacerbated and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. But mountains of research show that physical touch is critical to a person’s mental wellbeing and online interactions haven’t been able to provide that. One solution may come in the form of haptic gloves that give a sense of contact in...
Fireside Chat With University Makerspaces
RAS2025-07-29T16:00:00+00:00Join us for a Fireside Chat with Dale Dougherty and a panel of university makerspace leaders to explore how campus makerspaces are evolving and facing new challenges. Dale will be joined by experts at the forefront of the academic maker movement: Sabrina Merlo, Senior Director of External Affairs at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Eric Paulos, Professor of EECS and member of the Berkeley Center for New Media Claire Dorsett, Executive Director of Sears think[box] at Case Western...
VirCHEW Reality finally lets people gnaw on VR food
RAS2025-07-28T19:19:31+00:00Arduino Team — July 28th, 2025 Modern virtual reality headsets provide really great visuals and audio, but many experiences can’t be conveyed through those alone. There have been many attempts to expand on that to create more immersive experiences — we’ve even seen hardware to provide scent and thermal feedback. However, we’ve yet to see anything that can replicate eating food in the virtual environment. VirCHEW Reality is a novel new project that aims to...
Skin Deep – Evolving InMoov’s Facial Expressions With AI
RAS2025-07-28T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 93. Subscribe for more great projects. In the summer of 2015, Make: Volume 45 featured the InMoov robot on the cover. Inside, an article by Geeta Dayal introduced Gael Langevin, a French sculptor and technologist, who developed this 3D-printed humanoid robot from scratch. He set it up as an open source project with instructions on how to print the robot on a home 3D printer and assemble it. Gael...
Episode #795 – Atlantic Records, Pt. 2 – 1949-50
RAS2025-07-27T16:32:26+00:00Air Week: July 28-August 3, 2025
Atlantic Records, Pt. 2 – 1949-50
Atlantic Records was the most influential, significant and important independent record label to come out of the late-1940s, during a time when there were many great, small indie labels being born. What gave Atlantic the advantage over Specialty, Chess, Modern, Vee-Jay, Exclusive, King, etc is the breadth of material, variety of music styles and the sheer number of hit records that led to the Rock...July 27, 2025RASUncategorized1940s, 1950s, Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, blues, instrumentals, Jump Blues, R&B, Rhythm & Blues, Uncategorized0 Comments
