I just finished building another bristle bot named speedy. Speedy is a fun and simple bristle bot that I built from parts that I had lying around the house. I make the chassis from scrap metal that I had, and I shaped it using my diamond cutter. This was perhaps the most dangerous part, as [...]

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to speak with some high school programmers. They had messed around with the school terminal program on all of the library’s macs to the point where our tech people blocked Terminal from use. Most mac users fail to see what a powerful application Terminal really is. You can use it [...]

I think we’ll all agree that BW Science Labs has been in need of a logo for quite some time. Well, now thanks to Joseph Dudley (age 15), we have one. Designing logos is just one of the many ways you can get involved in BW Science Labs. Feel free to send me your ideas [...]

Often times I make a little something cool, like a small but powerful blue light, and I mean to post on it at BW Science Labs, but I’m just too darn busy, so BWSL is left without an update and I’m left with an unrecorded project or idea. Now, this problem has been solved with [...]

Arthur Benjamin has been a long time hero of mine, ever since I first saw his TED Lecture on how he does mental math. Today, I managed to convince my science teacher to let me skip some class and see Benjamin speak on campus at the High School. Much of his talk was extremely similar [...]