Those of you who know me know that I’ve built a few robots, all with very limited success. Now, I will try t follow a tutorial for once. Letsmakerobots.com has a great beginners’ robot, so I’ll be following that. Unfortunately, the parts list is from UK suppliers, so I spent a few hours tracking down [...]

Over a week ago, I googled “BW Science Labs”. I sorted through hundreds of sites, I couldn’t find it. Two or three days ago I searched again, I found it at 25 out of 990,000. Not bad. Today, I looked again… Ranked NUMBER 1! In the span of a week, BW Science Labs has surpassed [...]

A couple months ago, I won an old Xbox in a raffle (no, not a Xbox 360). I’m not much of a video game player, so I decided to take it apart. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The Xbox is is full of countless goodies just waiting to be extracted [...]

I made it clear earlier on where I stood in the on going war between the BASIC Stamp Family and the PIC. I would now like to address a point that is often overlooked- compatibility, something the BASIC Stamp 2 victoriously is in winning in. As the war between Mac and PC rages on, the [...]

In engineering, there is often a large debate over which is better: The BASIC Stamp family or the PIC/Picaxe family. All over the Internet, there are heated debates over which is superior. at a site called “Let’s Make Robots.com” the BASIC Stamp two module was under fire, and after reading some of their arguments I [...]