Episode #799 – Atlantic Records, Pt. 6 – 1953
Air Week: August 25-31, 2025
Setting Up A Soda Slam! and a Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1
RAS2025-08-22T22:57:51+00:00Welcome to a post centring around a topic that hasn’t been touched on for some time, and is being done in the absence of much else – you may have noticed the site has gone fairly quiet this past week. However, we do actually have several stories that are brewing behind-the-scenes. As these things go at times, we currently have to wait on pulling the trigger, but I promise that things will pick up here very soon. In the meantime, for...
3D Printer Review: Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra
RAS2025-08-22T16:00:00+00:00Manufacturer: Elegoo Price as tested: $524 Link: elegoo.com In the past, resin printers always came with big tradeoffs: big, fast, or cheap — you can have one. With the Saturn 4 Ultra, those days are gone. The Saturn 4 Ultra is a MSLA printer featuring a build volume of 218.88×122.88×220mm with a 12K mono screen. This means you have a larger build volume than a Prusa Mini or a Bambu A1 Mini but with a print...
August 22, 2025RASUncategorized3D Printers, 3D Printing & Imaging, Digital Fabrication, elegoo, Reviews, Tools0 Comments
Meet the teens behind RedSnapper: a smart Arduino-powered prosthetic arm
RAS2025-08-21T18:30:29+00:00An affordable, AI-assisted, wearable robotic arm? That’s not science fiction – it’s RedSnapper, an open-source prosthesis built by PAC Tech, a team of high school students from Istituto Maria Immacolata in Gorgonzola, Italy. Powered entirely by Arduino boards, their project won the national “Robot Arm Makers” title at the 2025 RomeCup – and we think it’s a perfect example of what young minds can do with passion, creativity, and technology.
A smart, affordable prosthetic – made with Arduino
...August 21, 2025RASUncategorizedArduino, Nano 33 BLE Sense, Prostheses, Prosthetic Arm, prosthetics, Robotic Arm0 Comments
Photo Roboto — Vintage Camera Snapshot Booth
RAS2025-08-21T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 89. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! There’s something undeniably charming about old cameras, and there’s something undeniably fun about photo booths. This build brings both together in a blend of low-fi prints, vintage hardware, and modern circuitry. A Raspberry Pi camera inside an old TLR (twin lens reflex) camera takes a user’s photo and prints it instantly on receipt paper. Your guests will be able to snap a...
Your plants can now play your video games
RAS2025-08-20T18:34:34+00:00Arduino Team — August 20th, 2025 The population of the world is currently in an uproar as everyone panics about AI stealing jobs. But nobody seems to be concerned about the possibility of plants stealing video games. Nobody, that is, except a team of researchers from KAIST and the Royal College of Art, who decided to just go ahead and make that happen by building this system, called Plant.play(), that lets a houseplant care for...
August 20, 2025RASUncategorizedArduino, gaming, Mega, Nano ESP32, Plant.play(), video games0 Comments
Wonderful Wind Waker Watercraft Wows Wistful Watchers
RAS2025-08-20T17:00:00+00:00How many hours did I spend sailing in Zelda: The Wind Waker? If I spent those hours building instead, maybe I could’ve crafted something like this King of Red Lions boat from LittleJem, who fulfilled a childhood dream by making the vessel a reality. After all, if you’re going to build something from a 20-year-old game, you might as well go big with it. Jem claims not to know anything about boat building, but does a brilliant job faking...
August 20, 2025RASUncategorizedboat, cosplay, Costumes, Cosplay, and Props, Craft & Design, DIY Projects, video game, zelda0 Comments
Sepia Lux, the Illuminated Cuttlefish
RAS2025-08-19T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! When Bill Kennedy saw a Facebook post seeking someone to work on an inflatable art car, he replied that he had relevant Burning Man experience earning him the nickname “Inflatabill,” which became the name of his own business. By December 2020, Inflatabill’s event business had dropped off because of Covid and he was worried about paying the rent on his Santa Rosa,...
August 19, 2025RASUncategorizedart cars, Burning Man, Cars, Drones & Vehicles, glowing, inflatable, make900 Comments
Petoi Programmable Robot Pets: Reviewed
RAS2025-08-18T16:00:00+00:00Manufacturer: Petoi Price as tested: $435 Nybble Q, $469 Bittle X V2 + Arm Link: Petoi Robot Pets
Nybble Q
This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great articles. The Petoi Nybble Q cat is my go-to cool thing to show off to new guests. The servo-packed, palm-sized robot comes with built-in responses to a bunch of voice commands right out of the box, and I had a ton of fun messing...Episode #798 – Atlantic Records, Pt. 5 – 1952-53
RAS2025-08-17T19:36:15+00:00Air Week: August 18-24, 2025
Atlantic Records, Pt. 5 – 1952-53
Atlantic Records was the most influential, significant and important independent record label to come out of the late-1940s, during a time when there were many great, small indie labels being born. What gave Atlantic the advantage over Specialty, Chess, Modern, Vee-Jay, Exclusive, King, etc is the breadth of material, variety of music styles and the sheer number of hit records that led to the Rock n’...August 17, 2025RASUncategorized1950s, Ahmet Ertegun, blues, instrumentals, Jump Blues, R&B, Rhythm & Blues, Uncategorized0 Comments
