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Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More
RAS2025-07-01T01:26:38+00:00Welcome once again to Newsbytes, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that goes over byte-sized pieces of news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. There is a lot to get through from over the course of June, so let’s jump straight into it all with a preview for Bowl Expo 2025:
Bowl Expo 2025 Preview
Summer is a relatively fallow period for arcade trade shows before Fall brings forth the big ones, but there...Cool Crowdfunding: Playing, Creating, and Hacking
RAS2025-06-30T21:30:00+00:00We receive so many pitches for crowdfunding projects. Since crowdfunding is a bit of a gamble, it is always hard to determine just how to write about these projects, considering that many of them may not ever deliver. Cool Crowdfunding is our way of sharing some of the ones that catch our eye. Remember, some of the crowdfunding projects from our previous Cool Crowdfunding collections may still be active! Go back and check them out to see if there’s anything you...
On Test: Star Wars Death Star Assault, Beatmania IIDX 33 Sparkle Shower, Earthion EXA Label
RAS2025-06-30T00:54:35+00:00Though usually light on big announcements or releases, Summer often brings with it a good chance for companies to try out upcoming titles or concepts, so it is time once again to round up a few new arcade games that have popped up on location test of late. Today these range from the latest Beatmania IIDX update, to a new Star Wars competitive redemption piece and one of the next arcade-exclusive EXA Label shooting game versions for Earthion, which have...
Episode #791 – 4th of July: Summertime, Travel, Food & Baseball!
RAS2025-06-29T16:40:50+00:00Air Week: June 30-July 6, 2025
4th of July: Summertime, Travel, Food & Baseball!
The Juke In The Back jumps into summer by spotlighting THE summertime holiday, the 4th of July. We’re diggin’ the 4th in song with tunes about summertime and the foods enjoyed in summer by Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, The Basin Street Boys, Chris Powell (hot dog) and John Brim (ice cream). We’ll also focus on America’s pastime with R&B songs about Baseball, honoring...June 29, 2025RASUncategorized1940s, 1950s, 4th of July, Baseball, blues, Doo Wop, Food, Independence Day, instrumentals, R&B, Rhythm & Blues, summertime, travel, Uncategorized, Vocal Groups0 Comments
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...
