Episode #827 – Live 1951: Midnight Matinee
Air Week: March 9-15, 2026
Japan Arcade Updates: Resident Evil 2/Biohazard RE:2 Arcade; Cotton Rock With You; StarHorse Party
RAS2026-03-07T06:09:07+00:00While we wait for Amusement Expo 2026 to get going in Las Vegas, there have been a few arcade happenings over in Japan to kick off the month, so now is as a good a time as ever to round those up. One of them is much bigger than the others, with the latter two being games that probably won’t come to locations outside the country, but are still worthy of some attention here. Let’s dive in:
Make: comes to Substack
RAS2026-03-06T23:10:00+00:00When Make: magazine came out in 2005, I used the word “Maker” to describe our readers and it caught on. However, we didn’t create makers; we discovered them — or re-discovered them — because there have always been makers, if not known by any particular name. Creating a quarterly print magazine (in digest size) was the starting point for Make:, a tangible and collectible thing that contains dozens of how-to projects, technology reviews and tutorials, and more. It’s always been by and...
Generating 3D Model Figures with AI
RAS2026-03-06T17:00:00+00:00It’s starting to feel like you can’t avoid AI these days. AI even took my order in the drive thru the other day, but it failed, and a staff member had to step in to fix it. The most common one most people have heard of is ChatGPT, but it’s only one of many out there. Many AI models are very specialized and can only do one thing, but not always well. The latest thing I keep hearing about in...
Turn your smartphone into a real-time vision input for Arduino® UNO™ Q
RAS2026-03-06T15:35:29+00:00Building computer vision AI just got much simpler. The Arduino® IoT Remote App now supports direct Wi-Fi connection to your UNO Q board, turning your smartphone into a wireless, high-resolution camera sensor. No external hardware to buy. No cloud setup required. No cables to manage. Your phone’s camera can stream directly to your board in seconds. Just pair, stream, and start building AI. It’s the fastest path from idea to working prototype the UNO Q has...
Doomscroll without walking into poles with this handy device
RAS2026-03-05T23:07:18+00:00Arduino Team — March 6th, 2026 A popular internet pastime is posting videos of people so focused on their phones while walking that they stroll right into light poles or other obstacles. That is funny for everyone else, but humiliating for the subject. If you want to avoid that kind of humiliation, you’ll want to build Dylan Benzekry’s DOOMSCROLLER 3000 to protect yourself from such mishaps. The DOOMSCROLLER 3000 is a device that attaches to...
Hand-Sewn Free-Range Plush Monsters
RAS2026-03-05T16:00:00+00:00In this classic, 2008 project from Craft: 06, readers learned how to hand-sew friendly plush monsters. Featured photo by Garry McLead. This article appeared in Craft: Vol. 06. My anthropomorphic creations always look like post-apocalyptic amigurumi. It’s probably because I like to work free-form and I’m a little goofy on the inside. While playing with commercial felt one day, I managed to create a hand-sewn “special friend” named Johnson. He had a comb-over and a total of six fingers, and he...
Radical accessibility on the Arduino® UNO™ Q board with OpenClaw
RAS2026-03-05T15:14:25+00:00It’s hard to escape the AI hype these days, but one tool that’s been in the spotlight more than any other recently is the open-source assistant OpenClaw. Billed as a handy tool that can be installed on a Mac Mini to help with clearing your inbox or comparison shopping, hardware hacker and creative technologist David Groom wondered how it might be paired with the latest 4GB UNO Q from Arduino to explore making embedded hardware...
March 5, 2026RASUncategorizedAI, App Lab, Arduino, Arduino UNO Q, Crowview Note, LLMs, OpenClaw, UNO Q0 Comments
Train and deploy your own AI models in Arduino® App Lab – now fully integrated with Edge Impulse!
RAS2026-03-04T12:33:58+00:00We’re excited to introduce a powerful new capability in Arduino App Lab: native integration with Edge Impulse for training and deploying your own custom AI models. This update makes it easier than ever to bring machine learning into your App Lab projects. By connecting directly to Edge Impulse Studio, you can now train models on your own data and seamlessly use them inside Arduino App Lab, confidently building applications that tackle specialized tasks, unique datasets, and...
March 4, 2026RASUncategorizedAI, AI Models, Announcements, App Lab, Arduino, Arduino App Lab, Edge AI, Edge Impulse, Featured, UNO Q0 Comments
Serious Play @ The Eames Ranch
RAS2026-03-04T05:45:33+00:00Since you’re here, you know that makers don’t just consume—they create. They admire and tinker. For most makers, problems are like pancakes: Pull them apart, flip them over, and see what else they might become. An essential part of a delicious and nutritious breakfast is to PLAY with your “food.” Ferris Plock That flavor burst from Crafting Curiosity: Advancing a Legacy of Agriculture and Making at the Eames Ranch, which opened on January 22 at the Petaluma...
