Episode #817 – 1946: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
Air Week: December 29, 2025-January 4, 2026
90’s Techno Art: Rap Caviar
RAS2025-12-26T17:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. Over five decades ago, in 1973, DJ Kool Herc changed music forever by using two turntables, each playing the same record, with a mixer to switch between them, in order to extend percussion breaks indefinitely. In the 1980s the “failure” of Roland’s TR-808 to successfully emulate a real drummer was embraced by hiphop and techno pioneers who used its synthetic sound as the bedrock to...
December 26, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, Fun & Games, Made On Earth, Make94, mashup, sculpture, technoart, video games0 Comments
A super-sized set of digital calipers for giants
RAS2025-12-26T13:37:06+00:00Arduino Team — December 26th, 2025 Every year, some of YouTube’s most prolific makers get together to coordinate a Secret Santa exchange among themselves, then post videos of the results. The only rule is that they have to create the gifts. This year, Matty Benedetto (Unnecessary Inventions) got Austin Bradley in the exchange. For Bradley’s present, Benedetto constructed this set of digital calipers suitable for giants. These calipers may be huge, but they do the same...
Arduino speaks teletype to an old Lorenz 15
RAS2025-12-24T19:37:37+00:00Arduino Team — December 24th, 2025 Brian got his hands on an old Lorenz 15 teletype machine, which was made in the 1950s. He also managed to snag an appropriate teletype modem. But the modem couldn’t seem to understand recorded teletype messages, so Brian used an Arduino Mega 2560 to “speak” teletype and get the Lorenz 15 printing. You can think of the Lorenz 15 with teletype modem as a bit like a vintage terminal...
Maker Community Responds to Prusa’s New Open Community License
RAS2025-12-23T22:00:00+00:00Prusa released a new set of Core One files on December 19th under a new license they made called Open Community License (OCL). Their blog post explains they created the license to “answer to the gaps left by traditional software licenses when applied to physical hardware.” They wish to use it to open up more of their source files while keeping their work protected. They cite examples of patent trolls attacking their MMU1 extruder and 3D designer Soozafone...
exA-Arcadia Updates: Asuka 120% Burning Fest Exallent Ships, More IAAPA 2025 Videos
RAS2025-12-23T07:31:23+00:00The last title to be released on the exA-Arcadia platform for 2025 is upon us, with Asuka 120% Burning Fest EXALLENT now shipping out to interested buyers. This is also likely the last arcade release of the year, unless someone else begins shipping a game out before the 31st. This release has reportedly done exceptionally well on test in Japan, and has been getting attention on Twitter/X over there. Let’s dig in a little further.
Watch: The Founder’s Vision—Dale Dougherty on the DNA of the Maker Movement
RAS2025-12-23T00:31:15+00:00Before Dale Dougherty’s keynote at Maker Faire Bay Area in September, the crowd was silent. As Dale stood at the podium and looked out on the packed audience, there was a collective “ohhhh” in the air, a deep breath of, “we are home.” Dale is not only the founder of this event and this magazine, but also this community. His keynote was a history lesson, but not just a history lesson. Dale was telling our community’s origin story. If you...
Newsbytes: EAG 2026, New Pop’n Music, Time Crisis Turns 30 & More
RAS2025-12-22T19:05:41+00:00Welcome to the last 2025 edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized pieces of news from around the worlds of arcades and pinball. We usually aim these to launch on the weekend, but there can be exceptions. We have just started the first day of winter for the Northern hemisphere, which means that the holidays are also upon us, with many companies and operators in the business shutting up shop or reducing...
Guide to Boards 2026: Indie Boards
RAS2025-12-22T17:00:00+00:00While the big guns like Arduino and Raspberry Pi may steal all the headlines, there are a huge variety of lesser known but equally, and sometimes even more, exciting single-board computers (SBCs) cropping up from all over the world. Boards like the Pi-shaped D-Robotics RDK X5 have caught us off guard with their impressive compute-to-price ratio, not to mention the outrageously cost-effective Luckfox Lyra family of boards with their many form factors (see “
December 22, 2025RASUncategorizedbeagleboard, Computers & Mobile, Electronics, make95, Other Boards, Single Board Computer, Technology0 Comments
Introducing the latest Arduino App Lab updates and examples
RAS2025-12-22T15:56:55+00:00The latest 0.3.2. update brings improved reliability, automated setup, AI model control, and exciting new examples to inspire your next creation. From smarter updates to better hardware visibility, everything is designed to make coding easier and more powerful with your Arduino UNO Q. Arduino App Lab 0.3.2 user interface
1. A smarter, more reliable update flow
We’ve made sure you never get left behind by fixing the “stuck” update issues for Windows users. Arduino App...December 22, 2025RASUncategorizedApp Lab, Arduino, Arduino App Lab, Featured, NanoNote, UNO Q0 Comments
