Instant Arcade

My name is Bob.

Game Industry veteran, former Imagineer, programmer, electronics, maker, arcade & pinball fan, runner, triathlete.

Seduced by LEDs and things that make noise.

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2026-01-07

Cosmo wants to remind you to brush your teeth 🪥

#dalmatian #dalmatiansoftoot #smiling

2026-01-04

I've stopped using AI or proxies to lazily inquire about job vacancies.

It's amazing what you can do when you apply yourself.

2025-12-06

Hats off to Amazon for really leaning in to this Time Travel theme!

#TimeTravel #Reading #Books #Amazon

Amazon just emailed me a coupon for downloading a book a Time Travel. The coupon expired last month.
2025-11-26

I forgot exactly what I trained my dog to do, but it will come to me.

2025-11-26

Ugh, Vampires....

I don't know how they can look in the mirror

2025-10-17

@grajohnt trying to make two extra ones so that you and Paul (Pimoroni) can get one. You both wanted to do the workshop and just missed it so happy to try and help out.

2025-10-17

@grajohnt If you want one and bring some cash, I might have enough spares to put a full matrix kit together for you.
I can't get you into the workshop, but I can give you the code examples & stuff.

2025-10-12

@grajohnt sold out in minutes. Hopefully there will be another.

2025-09-08

Donkey Kong was released closer to the start of WWII than it was to today.

Feeling retro yet?

2025-08-29

Christina seems to have let herself go a bit

Screenshot of a Pitbull album, that has the caption "Feel This Moment (ft. Christina Aguilera)"
But the image is (I think) Pitbull standing next to Jon Bon Jovi with their hands in the air
2025-08-24

Buddy, I wouldn't touch your three and a half metres with a ten foot pole

2025-08-21
2025-08-21

@zackstern Yep. I will fix this up soon. It already has a reliable switching power supply in it

2025-08-21

@zackstern I need to check all the sockets. It will sometimes play for a few minutes before crashing or resetting.
But I'm busy working on my programming workshop at the moment

2025-08-21
Instant Arcade boosted:
2025-06-12

I just got the keys to the ex-GAP for #Teardown2025. The dying mall/liminal space vibes are excellent.

We have a little over a week to fill it with cool projects, hacker art, machines, retro computers, a fully equipped make + hack space, and four tracks for talks, workshops and panels.

It's my second year running the show and I'm considerably less terrified than I was last year. I want to try and have fun!

2025-06-11

@MLE_online oof, well godspeed and I hope you get through it unscathed

2025-06-11

@MLE_online There's still plenty of time for cancellations

2025-06-11

Apparently, "this isn't the proper way to do a colonoscopy"

Instant Arcade boosted:
merlin / alex glowalexglow@chaos.social
2025-06-11

W00t! Join @ishotjr & myself for the first episode of our chaotic DIY electronics livestream, DAY//GLOW 🤩✨
Featuring TinyCircuits Thumby controllers (and more?)

⏰ This Thursday, June 12 at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 7pm UTC

▶️ Come heckle us on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=IPjp-_b7Td
▶️ Or LinkedIn: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l
▶️ Or catch the replay!

// #Hardware #Electronics #Gaming #MicroPython

David and Alex, drawn digitally in B&W and blue, look inward at a tiny, GameBoy-esque (but legally distinct) Thumby programmable game controller. At the bottom is "DAY//GLOW" in glowing yellow letters. It looks sick as hell!

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