I’m officially running a challenge through Digital Open for youth programmers. Hopefully this is but the first of many Digital Open challenges. Background: I’ve started making my own text-based game in Python executed completely in the Python Shell (a part of IDLE that can be downloaded for free here). What I’ve discovered is how truly [...]

I admit that its been a little while since my last post, and I acknowledge that many of you who took the BW Science Labs Survey requested articles more often, but well hey, school comes first. I’m currently 260 lines of code through my next program, a gamed called Colony Command. CC is an old-style [...]

All engineers are different, some are clean-kept while others are unorganized and messy (I get bonus points there), some prefer picaxe microcontrollers over BASIC Stamps, and so on and so forth. However, we all have one thing in common: We all use LEDs, or Light Emitting Diodes. You see them everywhere: in your phone, your [...]

I love nothing more than a competition where you can use your wits alone to triumph over everyone else. So, of course, I love Digital Open, a community where kids 17 and under can submit just about any project that they’ve been working on, be it a musical piece or robot. I’ve submitted one of [...]

Last night I read Chris Guillebaeu‘s “279 Days to Overnight Success” on how he manages his blog. After reading it, I realized all of the great changes that BW Science Labs could go through. However, before I do this I want your input, so please go ahead and take the BW Science Labs Survey.