Though the main arcade trade shows of the first quarter of the year happen with EAG in January and Amusement Expo International in March, in-between them there tend to be a few smaller events held across the world. Before the month wraps up, we have got a quick look at three of these from afar: NJAA Expo in Atlantic City, NJ, FEExpo in Bergamo, Italy, and DEAL in Dubai, UAE.
Arduino Team — February 27th, 2026 Artificial climbing walls are important for training, as few people can get to real rock walls regularly enough to keep up with practice. But like anything else, that can become boring if you’re just doing the same thing over and over again. To keep things fresh and fun, Superbender turned his indoor climbing wall into an interactive game. This is a climbing wall built in a regular indoor room,...
Ideally making is about giving your unique ideas form and bringing them to life in the physical world. But sometimes it ends up being about collecting more new tools instead.1 We 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...
Mark your calendars: we’re heading to Embedded World 2026 (Nuremberg, Germany – March 10-12) and we can’t wait to see you there! Visit us in Hall 3, Booth #555 for live demos, hands-on experiences, and – here’s the big one – a major product announcement you won’t want to miss. We’re unveiling something revolutionary, and Embedded World will be your first chance to see it in action.
Another arcade exclusive is now available in North America, as Gameloft/IGS/Wahlap’s Phantom Vanguard is now available in North America through LAI Games. Let’s see what this one is all about.
The Makera Air carved out this tiny skull model by @Mad_power on MakerWorld. Matt Stultz reviewed the middle of Makera’s lineup, the Carvera Air, when it first came out in 2024. Since then we’ve spent some time on a production machine and come to appreciate even more what Makera has done to make CNC milling easier.
Control theory is beautiful on paper – elegant equations, perfectly modeled systems, textbook-perfect responses. But between the mathematical ideal and the physical system lies a gap that trips up many engineers: noise, timing constraints, actuator limits, and the stubborn reality of hardware that refuses to behave exactly as the model predicts. Cristian Castro Lagos, a Chilean electronics engineer with nearly a decade of industrial experience and part-time professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, has made bridging that gap...
Arduino Team — February 25th, 2026 We are not robots operating on pure logic and rationality. We’re emotional animals with moods affected by everything from scents to the weather. Estefannie feels down on dreary days, so she built this musical payphone that calls her with a tune to provide a little emotional boost when there is rain. If you haven’t heard, payphones are teetering on obsolescence and very few exist in the wild these days....
As soon as you get into creating projects with CNC machines, you’ll run into the same problem all of us do: your CNC is never big enough. And as soon as you step up to a larger CNC, you’ll run into the second problem: where to put it! CNCs that can cut big projects like furniture have traditionally taken up a large amount of space. Let’s look at some options that don’t. Photo by Printrbot One of the first to...
We’ve all been there. You find a bin of LEGO bricks at a flea market or dig out your old collection from the attic. Inside is a peculiar piece—a wing-shaped thing, a printed tile with a faded logo. The question: Where did this come from? At Maker Faire Bay Area 2025, Sam Suksiri—a comedian and former LEGO Master Model Builder—showed attendees that every brick has a story. From Master Builder to Master Detective As a former Master Model Builder at...
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