Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that rounds up bytes of news from across the arcade and pinball worlds. What started off relatively quiet has now become an eventful month in terms of arcade happenings, and that is only going to pick up even more with IAAPA now exactly one month away, so let’s get into the here and now before the news cycle turns again.
Air Week: October 20-26, 2025
Evan Brand tipped us this summer that he’d be traveling to Japan and Korea this fall, and visiting Maker Faires in both countries, and would we like him to report for Make:? Of course we would! Here’s Evan’s dispatch from Maker Faire Seoul, September 27-28, and Maker Faire Tokyo, October 4-5. (For more coverage of the Tokyo event, see Make Books editor Kevin Toyama’s report here.) Maker Faire Seoul 2025 This past week I had the opportunity to check...
Return to Roma! We’re here again in the Eternal City, myself and Maker Faire Bay Area producer Gillian Mutti, checking out this year’s crop of amazing makers, projects, and tech startups at the mother of all European events, Maker Faire Rome. It’s a huge show, produced by the Rome Chamber of Commerce and the Italian Trade Agency (who generously sponsored our travel), and supported by some of our favorite vendors like Arduino, Digi-Key, and STMicroelectronics. We’ll be updating this...
An exciting new Maker Faire arrives in the bustling center of the other Bay Area — the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area, the most populous built-up metropolitan region in the world. With all those people, there are a lot of great ideas flying around! Produced by robotics innovators Hosted at the prestigious Guangzhou (International) Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Tianhe Base, this event promises to be the ultimate celebration of creativity and resourcefulness. Dive into a world of fascinating projects,...
This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! When I tell people that 3D printing has come a very long way, it’s hard to judge just exactly what I mean. But as a child of the 80s, a Transformer seems to me a fitting ultimate test of the quality of 3D printer. Aaron Leaman, aka Dr Operator, has been producing delightful, quirky, and unique 3D-printed Transformers for over a...
Arduino Team — October 17th, 2025 In the world of FashionTech — a field that blends haute couture design and mechatronics engineering — nobody has more experience than Anouk Wipprecht. Her own creations are always intriguing, but she also mentors students to help them realize their own visions. As part of a collaboration between Summa Fashion and Fontys School of Engineering, Wipprecht and a team of students created these insectile garments for Dutch Design Week...
Last year about this time, we unveiled that a new company by the name of Blue Motion Games would make their debut to the industry at IAAPA 2024. A few months after that, they arrived at Amusement Expo 2025 with two premiere titles: Desert Chase & Cannonball Jam. Both were large 4-player games intended for FECs; now they are both getting 2-player models. Let’s take a look.
Arduino Team — October 16th, 2025 The Arduino UNO Q is here and it is a very exciting product that combines a Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QRB2210 processor and STM32U585 microcontroller, giving users the best of both worlds in a single convenient package. One of its best features is the ability of the SBC to send data seamlessly to the microcontroller for interfacing with other components. James Bruton took advantage of that to build an...
If you’ve been turning to ChatGPT to write your Arduino code, you may actually be missing out on a tool designed just for you: the Arduino AI Assistant, built directly into Arduino Cloud. While general-purpose AIs like ChatGPT can generate code, they often miss critical details, such as using the wrong libraries or adding unnecessary complexity. The Arduino AI Assistant, on the other hand, is trained on Arduino’s own documentation and libraries and has context about the user’s...
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