Sega Amusements & 501 Entertainment Bring Interactive Mini Golf To Market

A 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...

July 15, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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Sound Foraging with Dogbotic

Sound design is a wizardry that goes unnoticed even though it surrounds us. It’s also more bonkers than I imagined. This talk by Kirk Pearson starts with “How to make a T. Rex sound in three relatively achievable steps,” and goes wilder from there. It finally answers the mysteries of where the goriest sound effects come from. Dogbotic is one of North America’s premiere audio studios — composing for animation, film, installation, theater, podcast, games, web, radio, and every other...

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Alvik Fight Club: A creative twist on coding, competition, and collaboration

Arduino Team — July 15th, 2025 What happens when you hand an educational robot to a group of developers and ask them to build something fun? At Arduino, you get a multiplayer robot showdown that’s part battle, part programming lesson, and entirely Alvik. The idea for Alvik Fight Club first came to life during one of our internal Make Tanks, in preparation for Maker Faire Rome 2024. Senior software developer Davide Neri and senior firmware...

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This DIY programmable diaphragm pump is perfect for lab use

Arduino Team — July 14th, 2025 If you need to move fluid from one vessel to another, you’re probably going to want a pump of some kind. Typical inexpensive pumps are usually only on or off, so you can’t easily control the flow rate. Those that do have some kind of analog adjustment are usually imprecise, which is a problem in lab settings. To solve that problem on a budget, Marb designed a DIY programmable diaphragm...

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Blips and Blankets

This article appeared in Make: Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. When Brooklyn, NY-based musician Phillip Stearns found circuit bending, he started experimenting with all kinds of art, branching out from audio into visual, then ultimately into textiles. That one tool, the ability to modify electronics hardware to create things from the resultant glitches, led to his endeavor called Glitch Textiles. “The project started...

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Episode #793 – Varetta Dillard

Air Week: July 14-20, 2025

Varetta Dillard

Varetta Dillard might be a footnote in R&B and Rock n’ Roll history, having only scored 3 R&B charting records, but her body of recorded work speaks for itself. She was more than just a Ruth Brown impersonator, though she could sound a lot like her idol. Dillard was also part of pop culture, having waxed a tribute record to the recently deceased Johnny Ace (“Johnny Has Gone” in 1955)...

July 13, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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Choose the Best Board for Wearables

This article appeared in Make: Vol. 91. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! There are plenty of boards to choose for your next wearable electronics project, and ultimately the best one is whichever fits your project’s unique constraints. To help narrow it down, here are five of the strongest contenders, plus a few that are too good to leave out.

LilyPad Arduino USB

Photo by SparkFun Get it on SparkFun LilyPad Arduino is the original...

July 11, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , , 0 Comments
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Review: xTool F1 Ultra Laser Cutter

Manufacturer: xTool Price as tested: $3,699 Link: https://www.xtool.com/products/xtool-f1-ultra-20w-fiber-diode-dual-laser-engraver Previously we looked at the xTool F1; this time we bring you the F1 Ultra, a machine that is more of a big cousin than a big brother to the F1. If you are willing to give up the extreme portability for more power, the F1 Ultra is here for you. Unboxing the F1 Ultra is a surprise — it’s big. It has a 220mm×220mm cutting area, not huge for...

July 10, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , , 0 Comments
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New AWS x Arduino Opta Workshop: Connect your PLC to the Cloud in just a few steps

We’re excited to invite you to a brand-new workshop created in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whether you’re modernizing factory operations or tinkering with your first industrial project, this hands-on workshop is your gateway to building cloud-connected PLCs that ship data – fast. At Arduino, we believe in making advanced technology more accessible. That’s why we’ve teamed up with AWS to help more people take their first steps into cloud-connected industrial IoT, using tools that are reliable,...

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This Beyblade battlebot is like a whirling dervish of destruction

Arduino Team — July 10th, 2025 Battlebots are fascinating, because their builders always manage to come up with unique new ways of destroying opponents while avoiding damage at the same time. Like any good sport, it involves metagaming to develop a strategy based on expected opponent strategies. Ari’s strategy was to make a translational drift (or “melty brain”) combat robot that spins its entire body at insane speeds, which requires some pretty careful engineering. Ari’s contender...

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