How to become a golden age arcade machine collector and repairman – Reader’s Feature

A reader describes how his love for 80s arcade coin-ops led to him becoming a collector and getting ever more deeply involved ...

If you absolutely love pinball, this app will find you a table wherever you go

Pinball Map is a free, community-powered app that helps players locate pinball machines at arcades, bars, restaurants and other venues worldwide.
Hypebeast

LEGO's "Arcade Pinball Machine" Translates 2,274 Bricks Into a Functional Retro Tabletop

The massive tabletop construction features intricate mechanical elements like a spring-powered launcher and dual flippers Builders are tasked with hitting specific targets to reunite an included ...
Wired

People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore

If gratification is so easy, why don’t you feel more gratified already? Because it’s gotten harder. It’s still easy to experience individual feats of gratification when you find them (or they find you ...
IGN

PS5 Console and Controllers Get Bold New Colors (Out Thursday)

As with all new PS5 controller and console cover releases, the colors have been given catchy names. They’re Techno Red, Remix Green, and Rhythm Blue. Leo Cardoso of the design team told PlayStation ...
IEEE

One-Iteration ISP Controller for Real-Time Machine Vision

Abstract: Conventional image signal processing (ISP) control algorithms based on human visual perception are insufficient for the demands of modern machine vision systems. Although recent ...
IEEE

A Scalable Hybrid FPGA-MCU Robotic Controller Board with Real-Time Sensor Fusion

Abstract: This paper presents a compact and modular robotic controller board that integrates a low-power A3P060 FPGA with a Microchip PolarFire SoC to achieve real-time motor control and sensor fusion ...