Episode #791 – 4th of July: Summertime, Travel, Food & Baseball!
Air Week: June 30-July 6, 2025
NeoXperiences Launches New Immersive Reality Game Room Platforms – The Neo-One
RAS2025-06-28T22:40:47+00:00We’re slightly behind on this one, as one of these products has been available for several months, but let’s get you all up to speed on a pair of new Immersive Reality Rooms (IRRs) that were recently launched by a French company by the name of NeoXperiences.
Who Are NeoXperiences?
If you have been a long time reader, then you might recall the news that we shared way back in 2012 (don’t worry, I won’t...This machine automatically scans books from cover to cover
RAS2025-06-27T23:37:17+00:00Arduino Team — June 28th, 2025 Hard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century. Of those, a significant portion were never available in a digital format and haven’t yet been digitized, which means their content is effectively inaccessible to most people today. To bring that content into the digital world, Redditor bradmattson built this machine that automatically scans books from cover to cover. There are,...
Pepper’s Ghost Hologram Flask
RAS2025-06-27T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 86. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! I learned about the classic stage illusion “Pepper’s Ghost” from an episode of Mr. Wizard’s World on Nickelodeon, sometime in the late 1980s. Many of his household science experiments were small and easy to replicate at home but occasionally Mr. Wizard would show off something really spectacular to his adolescent co-stars. In this particular segment, he produced an apparition of a skeleton...
June 27, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Costumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, Halloween, illusions, make86, prop0 Comments
The PlatypusBot is a TurtleBot3-inspired robot built from vacuum cleaner parts
RAS2025-06-27T12:25:39+00:00Arduino Team — June 27th, 2025 We all love the immense convenience provided by robot vacuum cleaners, but what happens when they get too old to function? Rather than throwing it away, Milos Rasic from element14 Presents wanted to extract the often-expensive components and repurpose them into an entirely new robot, inspired by the TurtleBot3: the PlatypusBot. Rasic quickly got to work by disassembling the bot into its drive motors, pump, and several other small...
Play With Your Own Junk
RAS2025-06-26T16:00:00+00:00As a maker, do you ever wander into a store, see something cool on the shelf, and think “I bet I could make that!” I often think the same thing about board games. I’ve been a game designer for over a decade, working on everything from indie videogames to mass market board games to large-scale Arduino-powered installation games. A big part of my prototyping process has been about figuring out what I can do with what’s available to me, then...
Why we chose Claude for the Arduino Cloud AI Assistant
RAS2025-06-26T12:14:57+00:00We know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety, accuracy, privacy, and trust. That’s why we want to be transparent about how we built the recently-announced Arduino AI Assistant in the Cloud IDE, and why we chose to power it with Claude by Anthropic, available via Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock. This feature is not a shortcut. It’s a tool to help you learn faster, test smarter, and stay focused on the...
This 1D camera captures 2D images of things it can’t see
RAS2025-06-25T22:52:24+00:00Arduino Team — June 25th, 2025 Yes, the title of this article sounds pretty crazy. But not only is it entirely possible through the lens of physics, but it is also practical to achieve in the real world using affordable parts. Jon Bumstead pulled it off with an Arduino, a photoresistor, and an inexpensive portable projector. Today’s digital camera sensors are the result of a fairly linear progression from a camera obscura up through film...
June 25, 2025RASUncategorized1D Camera, Arduino, Camera, Imaging, Mega, Non-line-of-sight Imaging0 Comments
Go Beyond Reality With a Circuit Bent Glitch Cam
RAS2025-06-25T16:00:00+00:00Ade circuit bent a toy camera that takes pictures that look like something from another universe. He started with a cheap toy camera, added potentiometers between a ribbon cable and the connector, and fit it all into a Frankensteined case that’s part original, part 3D-printed, and part bottle cap. The result combines electronics, minor soldering, and a 3D-printed enclosure that’s a whimsical combination of punk and polish which fits the camera’s delightfully psychedelic photos. Circuit bending projects are...
OSHWA Healthware Highlight: COSMIIC
RAS2025-06-24T16:00:00+00:00This piece is part of a highlight series on OSHWA.org. As we delve deeper into the world of open healthware we have been amazed at the sheer number of projects that are out there. Open source medical devices have been thriving in fields of research, and various distribution networks have been sharing open health hardware with the world. One of the biggest things we want to make clear in our investigations is that this field is not new. OSHWA...
