Episode #785 – The Larks, Pt. 1 – 1950-52
Air Week: May 19-25, 2025
Joshintosh Merges Vintage Mac and Powerful PC
RAS2025-05-16T22:00:00+00:00Apple’s Macs may be the pinnacle of designer tech, but if you’re a PC gamer, you know the lure of a computer with a cleverly curated collection of components to render those demanding details with ease. There’s surely a sensible way to find unity between the two sides. There’s also Joshintosh. Josh Greenwalt of RetraCast has done a lovely job of fitting a PC into an old Macintosh case. More than a typical Raspberry Pi or single board computer in...
Behind the boards: How Alba PCB Group and Arduino bring Made-in-Italy innovation to life
RAS2025-05-16T12:28:13+00:00Arduino Team — May 16th, 2025 Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to take a peek behind the scenes with a beautiful documentary by Italian director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, A Different Alba: Arduino, an Italian Invention. Discover the entrepreneurial vision and values that help Arduino products stand out in the world: exceptional quality standards, care for detail (“down to the micron”), creative solutions that allow even a small...
Pop-A-Shot Elite Is Now Available
RAS2025-05-15T17:36:29+00:00Pop-A-Shot, inventors of the original basketball arcade machine, have announced that their return to the arcade market with the Pop-A-Shot Elite, is now available for operators to buy. With a few exceptions of some games that have already shipped, units purchased now will begin shipping in June, but in case demand is high and you’re interested, you’ll want to get that taken care of sooner rather than later. That’s pretty much the long and short of it, but since we...
AAA 2025 Day 3: Rounding Up China’s New Arcade Games
RAS2025-05-14T22:51:16+00:00Day 3 means the home stretch for our coverage of the AAA 2025 trade show in China, but it is going to be a long one, rounding up all the other, smaller names who attended the show. Those that had more major new titles on offer can all be found up top, with the latter part of the post covering the rest, from China-only oddities to a few nods for redemption and pure VR (which is less of our focus...
MacGyver in a Box
RAS2025-05-14T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 93. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! On January 12, 2010, at 4:53pm local time, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, about 15 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince. The earthquake lasted less than 30 seconds. About 220,000 people were reportedly killed. Near the epicenter 80–90% of buildings were destroyed or critically damaged including hospitals, the airport, seaport, and telecoms services. The devastation was hard to imagine. Financial aid poured in from around the...
AAA 2025 Day 2: More Arcade Games Debuting In China
RAS2025-05-13T19:28:43+00:00Though the trade show may have ended, things are far from done here on Arcade Heroes with AAA 2025. This post is the second in three days’ worth of coverage for the expo; as their main new titles mostly have photo sharing bans, UNIS and Ace Amusement are being brought together here, both also being two companies that have recently been very prolific in appealing towards the West. Because of that, expect the vast majority of new arcade games you...
Optimize maintenance with the Arduino Rileva ME Opta Bundle
RAS2025-05-13T13:08:34+00:00When your machines run smoothly, your business can go far. That’s why condition monitoring – once a “nice to have” – is quickly becoming a must in maintenance strategies across industrial settings. But most dedicated systems can be complex to set up or difficult to scale. To make things easier, we’re introducing the Arduino Rileva ME Opta Bundle: a complete, professional-grade solution that lets you monitor key assets and detect anomalies that might lead to failures, in real-time. It’s fast...
AAA 2025 Day 1: Arcade Games Showcased In China
RAS2025-05-12T19:25:17+00:00Our next big event for the month of May takes us from Tokyo to the other side of Asia, namely Guangzhou, China, for a considerably larger show than EVO Japan – AAA 2025. This edition of the Asia Amusement & Attractions Expo got underway on the 10th, and has just finished up as this is being posted. It of course means plenty of new arcade games from the Chinese amusement industry and their international partners to check out; with news...
M5Stack Dial
RAS2025-05-12T16:00:00+00:00Another spin on the ESP32 + 1.28″ round touchscreen formula, this time from the incredibly innovative M5Stack. What makes this one stand out is the rotary dial that surrounds the screen, providing a unique and charming user input method, which combined with an RFID reader and integrated M5StampS3 makes it great for home automation projects where temperature or light levels require convenient adjustment, as well as user identification and authorization.
