One of the most useful items I have ever gotten as a gift is my new digital microscope. I can take pictures and video, I can zoom in hundreds of times farther than the human eye, it has eight super-bright LEDs to illuminate the object being viewed. Call me paranoid, but I’m always afraid that [...]

There is not much to say about this stage of the dissection that the pictures below cannot tell us, other than the two main objectives: 1. Successfully extract the laser diode. 2. Successfully take apart the hard drive. This is where we get into some of the much more fun stuff, as you are finally [...]

After exploring several other blogs, I thought it would be great to work out a guest posting system, where anyone can add a scientific/ educational post. Of course, all posts will first be reviewed by myself. You may e-mail me your project, experiment, etc. as an attachment or directly pasted onto an e-mail. Send it [...]

Hmmmmm. I ordered a card reader a couple weeks ago so I could process my images. It, to my suprise, still has not arrived. Please sit tight for a couple of days. I wanted to give an update an let you all know that I have not forgotten about BW Science Labs, though I have [...]

I’ve spent the past few days taking apart the Xbox. I managed to extract the laser diode module and I even took apart the hard drive. I documented it thoroughly with my camera, however I’ve been having trouble putting the images onto my computer, so I ordered a card reader from the web. It should [...]