July Trade Shows: Bowl Expo & IAAPA Expo Asia 2025

With July fully underway, it’s time to take a look at a couple more trade shows that recently showcased arcade games. These are perhaps the most effective way for new products to get intra-industry attention these days, giving manufacturers the best opportunity to present their games in a hands-on way to potential buyers. While we tend to focus on a couple of the larger shows during the year, smaller ones have their value too, with today’s being no exception. We have...

July 9, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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Gadget Cache Road Trip!

This article appeared in Make: Vol. 86. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Last summer I took an epic geocaching road trip to North Dakota. I drove past the majestic painted hills in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, across the badlands, past the colorful fields, all the way to the east side of the state to a one-horse town called Gilby. Gilby may be small but it’s mighty! It contains a rare treasure for those discerning...

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Open Source Hardware Certifications for June 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. Currently the Certification database lists over 3064 individual certifications! In May we added 35 new certifications, from green houses to trackballs, and we were happy to have new and...

July 8, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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Concept Bytes’ coffee table tracks people and walks itself across a room when called

Concept Bytes’ coffee table tracks people and walks itself across a room when called

Arduino Team — July 8th, 2025 The term “mmWave” refers to radio waves with wavelengths on the millimeter scale. When it comes to wireless communications technology, like 5G, mmWave allows for very fast data transfer — though that comes at the expense of range. But mmWave technology also has some very useful sensing and scanning applications, which you may have experienced...

July 7, 2025Uncategorized, , , 0 Comments
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Building a Wi-Fi robot controller that accepts voice commands

Arduino Team — July 7th, 2025 The whole point of a robot is that it can operate without direct control input from an operator. Except there are many exceptions and it isn’t uncommon for roboticists and operators to require direct control. The Tinkering Techie needed to add that capability to his rover robot and built his own Wi-Fi controller that also accepts voice commands. Conventional remote control (RC) vehicles communicate through analog radio. But it is...

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Smart Plant Monitor

This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Until recently, I relied on the Xiaomi Mi Flora to monitor my indoor plants. While it provided useful plant care info, it had some interface limitations, requiring their specific app for configuration. One day, I noticed some missing data and suspected the battery had died. However, upon searching for the sensor, it was nowhere to be found. I organized a search party...

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Episode #792 – Tiny Bradshaw

Air Week: July 7-13, 2025

Tiny Bradshaw

Tiny Bradshaw put in his time, spending 16 years of making music with various big bands, including his own, without ever scoring a national hit. But when things turned around for the drummer, pianist, composer and bandleader, his star began to rise. He scored a #2 R&B smash with “Well Of Well” in 1950, just as he was beginning his 9 year association with Cincinnati’s King Records. This would be...

July 6, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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This automatic emergency braking system protects RC cars

Arduino Team — July 3rd, 2025 It is a story as old as time (or at least the 1960s): kid gets an RC car for Christmas and excitedly takes it for spin, but crashes it into a wall within five minutes and tears ensue. The automotive industry has cut down on accidents by implementing automatic emergency braking safety features, so why can’t RC cars have something similar? They can and Narrow Studios proved it by creating...

July 3, 2025Uncategorized, , , 0 Comments
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Wall-E Wood

This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Expert woodworker Peter Vivian has been a maker for as long as he can remember. Building upon early success in a model-making competition at school, Vivian trained as a technical illustrator and spent the next two and a half decades in graphic design and commercial photography. Yet throughout that time, he yearned to have his own woodworking business, which he eventually launched...

July 3, 2025Uncategorized, , , , 0 Comments
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OSHWA Healthware Highlight: OpenNerve

This piece is part of a highlight series on OSHWA.org. We started this series by looking at COSMIIC and you cannot talk about them without mentioning their sister project, OpenNerve developed by the Center for Autonomic Nerve Recording and Stimulation Systems (CARRS). OpenNerve is the other project supported by the National Institute of Health, the US-based government organization that funds medical research. Both projects were selected as part of the SPARC grant...

July 2, 2025Uncategorized, , , 0 Comments
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