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Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
RAS2025-05-31T21:34:03+00:00Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened anywhere on the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations that we hear about, but thanks to various readers, and other arcade news sites like RePlay Magazine and InterGame Online, we do our best at keeping this comprehensive. Our last Location Watch post came in way back at the end...
Homework Machine Saves Time, Possibly
RAS2025-05-31T16:00:23+00:00It’s been said that computers make great teachers because they’re so dumb, they force you to think harder.1 That’s definitely true in the case of this automatic homework machine by Devadath PR of Thrissur, Kerala, India, which uses a CoreXY plotter and clever programming to convincingly forge the answers. Fed up at 15 with an educational system that felt heavy on rote memorization but low on critical thinking, Devadath began building a machine to do the boring...
LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
RAS2025-05-31T15:46:42+00:00Much has been said in recent months about arcade virtual reality (and VR in general) declining from the heights of its second boom period. That doesn’t stop new pieces from appearing, however, as here we have news of one appearing on location test. LAI Games was the first company to have a big hit in this space with Virtual Rabbids (2017), and now they are working with Ubisoft again as they have begun testing Ubisoft All-Star Blast VR. Let’s...
Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
RAS2025-05-31T00:29:15+00:00Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that runs through recent “bytes” of news around the wonderful world of arcade and pinball games. We usually try and launch these on a Saturday, but given the Memorial Day weekend and day that it was in the US, we held it over. This weekend each May is usually a good time for going out and visiting an arcade, and I tend to be busy (but both last...
Lower-Cost Metal 3D Printing
RAS2025-05-30T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 86. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Metal 3D printing conjures up an image of lasers depositing energy into explosive powders, and systems that cost millions of dollars. However, there are viable options that will allow you to print metal parts on a consumer-level filament 3D printer. The investments start at a couple thousand dollars and go up a couple orders of magnitude from there. Let’s find out what...
What can you do with Arduino and a new 3D printer?
RAS2025-05-30T13:59:10+00:00When 3D printing matured from an industrial edge case to a mainstream commercial technology in the 2010s, it captured the imaginations of everyone from schoolteachers to fashion designers. But if there’s one group that really, really got excited about 3D printing, it was makers. When 3D printers became commercially available, they knew that everything was about to change. Indeed, 3D printing offers everyone the invaluable ability to create custom components tailored to specific needs. This in turn brings a...
Review: Procolored F13 Panda DTF Printer
RAS2025-05-28T16:00:00+00:00This review appeared in Make: Vol 93. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! So you’ve got something to say and you want to wear it on your sleeve, or maybe your chest, or your back? Well the Procolored F13 Panda DTF printer has you covered. There lots of ways to put graphics on a garment. Silkscreen is popular, but multicolor takes lots of practice and it’s still hard to get a lot of colors....
Konami Releases Contra Burst To Round1USA
RAS2025-05-28T03:09:23+00:00Late last year, word spread around in arcade circles about a brand new Contra video redemption game by Konami under the name of Contra Burst. This quietly appeared on location test at Round1USA‘s flagship Puente Hills Mall store, although all we had to go off of was a photo of it being set up and another taken from after it went into operations. Nothing else was said on it following this, with no news coming through of...
Recreating a bizarre century-old electronic instrument
RAS2025-05-27T19:46:35+00:00Arduino Team — May 27th, 2025 There are a handful of instruments that are staples of modern music, like guitars and pianos. And then there are hundreds of other instruments that were invented throughout history and then fell into obscurity without much notice. The Luminaphone, invented by Harry Grindell Matthews and unveiled in 1925, is a particularly bizarre example. Few people have ever heard the Luminaphone and so Nick Bild recreated the unique instrument using...
