Review: Algolaser Pixi Engraver Handles the Basics
Manufacturer: Algolaser Price: $270 as tested (5W, black enclosure) URL: https://algolaser.com/products/algolaser-pixi-smart-laser-engraver-with-enclosure?variant=51274697343283
Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)
RAS2025-07-16T20:46:45+00:00While it’s been a slow news period for the summer, that doesn’t mean that nothing it happening behind-the-scenes within the arcade world. We have three games on test to discuss today, known as “location tests” in arcade industry jargon. It’s our way of saying “beta test”, although in some instances a concept might be more in the alpha stages. Those three games, which we’ll cover in this order, are: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco) NEW!! Pop’n Music (Konami) Forklift Frenzy (Bay...
Grindcore by Tube Time
RAS2025-07-16T16:00:00+00:00This article is from Make Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. When your function generator dies, you never know what you’ll find inside. Maybe it will be a blown tantalum capacitor, or maybe it will be an ongoing art project with followers all over social media. In his case, engineer Eric Schlaepfer found both. He wanted to see if there was an obvious failure point...
Sega Amusements & 501 Entertainment Bring Interactive Mini Golf To Market
RAS2025-07-15T17:53:59+00:00A few years ago, Sega Amusements broadened their horizons into social entertainment by partnering with another UK-based company by the name of 501 Entertainment, inking a deal to bring out their augmented reality-incorporating SMARTS Interactive Darts system. Now, the next fruits of that relationship are coming to the market: Interactive Mini Golf. Though not a typical arcade product per se, with Sega Amusements attached it can sit alongside them nicely, so let’s take a look at what...
Sound Foraging with Dogbotic
RAS2025-07-15T17:00:00+00:00Sound design is a wizardry that goes unnoticed even though it surrounds us. It’s also more bonkers than I imagined. This talk by Kirk Pearson starts with “How to make a T. Rex sound in three relatively achievable steps,” and goes wilder from there. It finally answers the mysteries of where the goriest sound effects come from. Dogbotic is one of North America’s premiere audio studios — composing for animation, film, installation, theater, podcast, games, web, radio, and every other...
Alvik Fight Club: A creative twist on coding, competition, and collaboration
RAS2025-07-15T12:11:04+00:00Arduino Team — July 15th, 2025 What happens when you hand an educational robot to a group of developers and ask them to build something fun? At Arduino, you get a multiplayer robot showdown that’s part battle, part programming lesson, and entirely Alvik. The idea for Alvik Fight Club first came to life during one of our internal Make Tanks, in preparation for Maker Faire Rome 2024. Senior software developer Davide Neri and senior firmware...
July 15, 2025RASUncategorizedAlvik, Alvik Fight Club, Arduino, Battle Robots, BattleBots, Robot Battle, robotics, robots0 Comments
This DIY programmable diaphragm pump is perfect for lab use
RAS2025-07-14T22:57:48+00:00Arduino Team — July 14th, 2025 If you need to move fluid from one vessel to another, you’re probably going to want a pump of some kind. Typical inexpensive pumps are usually only on or off, so you can’t easily control the flow rate. Those that do have some kind of analog adjustment are usually imprecise, which is a problem in lab settings. To solve that problem on a budget, Marb designed a DIY programmable diaphragm...
Blips and Blankets
RAS2025-07-14T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 71! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. When Brooklyn, NY-based musician Phillip Stearns found circuit bending, he started experimenting with all kinds of art, branching out from audio into visual, then ultimately into textiles. That one tool, the ability to modify electronics hardware to create things from the resultant glitches, led to his endeavor called Glitch Textiles. “The project started...
July 14, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, glitch, Made On Earth, make71, textiles0 Comments
Episode #793 – Varetta Dillard
RAS2025-07-13T16:43:04+00:00Air Week: July 14-20, 2025
Varetta Dillard
Varetta Dillard might be a footnote in R&B and Rock n’ Roll history, having only scored 3 R&B charting records, but her body of recorded work speaks for itself. She was more than just a Ruth Brown impersonator, though she could sound a lot like her idol. Dillard was also part of pop culture, having waxed a tribute record to the recently deceased Johnny Ace (“Johnny Has Gone” in 1955)...July 13, 2025RASUncategorized1950s, Henry Glover, Jump Blues, R&B, Rhythm & Blues, Savoy Records, Uncategorized0 Comments
Choose the Best Board for Wearables
RAS2025-07-11T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 91. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! There are plenty of boards to choose for your next wearable electronics project, and ultimately the best one is whichever fits your project’s unique constraints. To help narrow it down, here are five of the strongest contenders, plus a few that are too good to leave out.
LilyPad Arduino USB
Photo by SparkFun Get it on SparkFun LilyPad Arduino is the original...July 11, 2025RASUncategorizedAdafruit, Arduino, board guide, LilyPad Arduino, make91, Other Boards, Technology, Wearables0 Comments
