Episode #790 – Lloyd Price: The Specialty Sides
Air Week: June 23-29, 2025
exA-Arcadia Puts Daemon Bride exAGAIN & Jamjam’n Jelly EXALENTE Up For Pre-Order
RAS2025-06-22T03:40:26+00:00While Summer often means a slowdown in new arcade game announcements and releases, that hasn’t been an exclusive phenomenon in recent years, thanks to companies whose business model allows them to release content at other parts of the year. One of those companies is exA-Arcadia, whose focus on kits allows them that kind of flexibility. They’ve got two games ready to go, so let’s check them out:
Daemon Bride exAGAIN
First up is a 1v1 fighting...Review: xTool F1 Laser Cutter
RAS2025-06-20T16:00:00+00:00Manufacturer: xTool Price as tested: $1,999 Link: https://www.xtool.com/products/xtool-f1 The phrase “small but mighty” might have been created to describe the xTool F1. Fully enclosed, it will only take up a small corner of your desk while still giving you dual blue and IR diode lasers. If you’re a craft person looking to take a laser to events to personalize items during the event, keep reading, because you’ve found your laser. While the cutting area of the F1 isn’t large,...
Pinball Brothers Bring PREDATOR Out Of The Jungle
RAS2025-06-18T22:36:29+00:00Since it was first teased by the failed outfit Skit-B Pinball back in 2012, plenty of fans have wanted to see a Predator pinball machine gracing their game rooms. What Skit-B teased looked really cool, but where they never got a license from Fox (while taking customer pre-oreder cash), it ended up as one of the biggest fiasco’s that the pinball community has seen this side of the Deeproot Pinball scam. Leaving all of that baggage as water...
This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery
RAS2025-06-18T20:32:00+00:00Arduino Team — June 18th, 2025 If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like a AA alkaline or a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. But there are other kinds of batteries that store energy without any fancy chemistry at all. If you find a way to save energy for later, you have a useful battery. Erik, of the Concept Crafted Creations YouTube channel, achieved that by storing kinetic...
Candlelit Cathedral Dress
RAS2025-06-18T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 86. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! I love adding special effects to textiles, and programmable LED strips have changed the game — but sometimes a look calls for more of a candlelit cathedral than a rainbow rave! This project uses flickering LEDs to illuminate semi-sheer fabric panels in the style of stained glass. You can upcycle an existing skirt, or sew your own garment from scratch. Go for vibrant,...
Elevate your IoT with ultra-wideband: Meet Arduino Stella and Portenta UWB Shield!
RAS2025-06-18T15:21:27+00:00We are proud to announce two groundbreaking additions to the Arduino Pro portfolio: the Arduino Stella and Portenta UWB Shield, developed in partnership with Truesense. These advanced tools leverage ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to redefine precision tracking, indoor navigation, and contactless human-machine interactions, empowering IoT innovation across industries. Whatever you have in mind, you’ll leverage streamlined development thanks to ready-to-use Arduino IDE libraries, examples, and tutorials, enabling you to move from concept to prototype faster. With UWB...
June 18, 2025RASUncategorizedDCU040, Featured, nRF52840, Portenta C33, Portenta UWB Shield, Stella, Truesense, Ultra-Wideband, UWB0 Comments
FAB25: The Global FabLab Gathering Comes to Central Europe
RAS2025-06-17T21:11:27+00:00Mark your calendars for July 4–11, 2025, as the global FabLab community meets in Brno and Prague for FAB25. FAB25 is the official global event of the FabLab community, organized by The Fab Foundation (MIT), The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT (CBA), Make more (CZ), and FabLab Brno (CZ). For the first time in Central Europe, this is your chance to connect with innovators worldwide. Under this year’s theme, “Bridge the Gap,” you’ll spend eight days immersed in...
makeITcircular 2025 Is Open: Calling All Real-World Circular Economy Projects!
RAS2025-06-17T20:17:47+00:00Are you looking to find green solutions to age old or modern problems? Are you invested in designing for the circular economy? If so, Maker Faire Rome has a contest for you! The #MFR makeITcircular contest is dedicated to tangible solutions for the circular economy. Now in its sixth edition, the initiative supports projects that embrace reuse, recycling, eco-design, and environmental sustainability — in full alignment with the Circular Consumption Charter. MakeITcircular is grounded in the Circular Consumption...
Kerf Bend Wizard Simplifies Complex Curves
RAS2025-06-17T16:00:00+00:00Kerf bending plywood is a great way to lend elegance to a woodworking project, but bending boards isn’t without difficulty. Arcs require trial and error to get just right, and if you want a wild curve like an oval or parabola, you could be at it for a while. If that’s the kind of thing that keeps you up at night, then good news, Michael Schiebler released a tool to make your life a lot easier.
