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Location Watch December 2025: New Arcades Open In Time For 2026

Welcome to the last 2025 edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers brand new arcade locations which have opened all over the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations we hear about, but thanks to various readers, our own research on social media, and other arcade news sites like RePlay Magazine and InterGame Online, we do our best at making it comprehensive. If you missed the news on our previous Location Watch posts...

December 30, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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The Connect 4 Musical Instrument: A Creative Fusion of Music and Technology

At last fall’s Maker Faire Bay Area, Ben showcased the ‘Connect 4 Musical Instrument’. It is a twist on the classic strategy game, but this one plays music as you play the game. Ben shares how this project combined elements of game design, music technology, and interactive art. Ben showed us how his idea evolved from the question, “What if Connect 4 made music?” Transform it into a functional prototype. Ben’s simple yet complex system uses RFID sensors in the...

December 29, 2025Uncategorized, 0 Comments
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20 Years of Make: Triumph of the Makers

Twenty years ago, I wrote a column called “News from the Future” for the first issue of Make: magazine. I based it on the notion from science-fiction writer William Gibson that “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Makers, hackers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts, I argued, are living in a future that we will all one day catch up to. The list of projects from early issues of Make: did indeed bring momentous news from the future. Drones,...

December 29, 2025Uncategorized, , , 0 Comments
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Display your photos like they’re in MacPaint

Arduino Team — December 28th, 2025 Every millennial knows the exhilarating feeling of going to the computer lab, booting up a Macintosh, and creating beautiful art in MacPaint. The nostalgia meter has broken its dial and is now spinning wildly. If you want to capture that nostalgia in a form suitable for home décor, you can build Mark Wilson’s fantastic LackPaint to display your photos like they’re in MacPaint. LackPaint is basically a digital photo...

December 28, 2025Uncategorized, , , 0 Comments
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Episode #817 – 1946: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1

Air Week: December 29, 2025-January 4, 2026

1946: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1

Kick off the New Year, by looking back 80 years to 1946! The “Juke In The Back” once again puts our old Rockola Jukebox in the forefront as we spotlight the biggest Rhythm & Blues jukebox hits of 1946. In part 1, we’ll focus on the first half of the year, featuring Wynonie “Mr. Blues” Harris’ first hit as a solo artist and bandleader...

December 28, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , , , 0 Comments
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90’s Techno Art: Rap Caviar

This 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, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , , , , 0 Comments
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A super-sized set of digital calipers for giants

Arduino 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...

December 26, 2025Uncategorized, , , 0 Comments
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Arduino speaks teletype to an old Lorenz 15

Arduino 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...

December 24, 2025Uncategorized, , 0 Comments
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Maker Community Responds to Prusa’s New Open Community License

Prusa 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...

December 23, 2025Uncategorized, , 0 Comments
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exA-Arcadia Updates: Asuka 120% Burning Fest Exallent Ships, More IAAPA 2025 Videos

The 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.

December 23, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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