It’s been 45 years since Atari originally released the iconic Missile Command to arcades (released in June 1980) and in all of that time, it’s the only iteration of the game to have graced arcade game rooms – until now. Alan-1 Inc., one of our sponsors here and local to me, have released the game, which they are debuting at California Extreme 2025 tomorrow. Let’s take a quick look into it.
Just over a year ago, during the grand opening of WonderLab at Give Kids The World Village, Dale and I first saw an interactive fabrication and robotics activity that would later become the Garner Holt Animatronic Songbird Mini STEAM Build Kit. Last week, I stumbled across this hands-on robotics project on Kickstarter. Then the communication crossfire started, and connections were made! As covered in Make: Things newsletter (Orlando’s WonderLab: A New Kind...
CNC machinery and hand tools are often at two ends of the spectrum when it comes to woodworking. CNC machines offer precision and complexity, though usually at the cost of bulky equipment and, well, money. Hand tools offer affordability and flexibility at the cost of tedious mastery. What if we could have the best of both worlds? We started building Compass CNC with that goal in mind — an open source CNC router that fits in your hands, giving you...
This report appeared in the Make Things newsletter. This newsletter lives on the web at makethings.make.co. Above: Marleen Stikker of Waag Futurelab referenced Make:’s motto “If you can’t open it…” in her talk “Maker culture is the basis for strategic autonomy.” FAB25 was held July 4–1 in the cities of Brno and Prague in Czechia. Organized by the Fab Foundation, the conference moves to a different city each year and brings together many from the Fab Lab Network,...
Manufacturer: Algolaser Price: $270 as tested (5W, black enclosure) URL: https://algolaser.com/products/algolaser-pixi-smart-laser-engraver-with-enclosure?variant=51274697343283
While it’s been a slow news period for the summer, that doesn’t mean that nothing it happening behind-the-scenes within the arcade world. We have three games on test to discuss today, known as “location tests” in arcade industry jargon. It’s our way of saying “beta test”, although in some instances a concept might be more in the alpha stages. Those three games, which we’ll cover in this order, are: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco) NEW!! Pop’n Music (Konami) Forklift Frenzy (Bay...
This article is from Make Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. When your function generator dies, you never know what you’ll find inside. Maybe it will be a blown tantalum capacitor, or maybe it will be an ongoing art project with followers all over social media. In his case, engineer Eric Schlaepfer found both. He wanted to see if there was an obvious failure point...
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...
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...
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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