It really pays to read tech news. Today, I stumbled upon an article that claimed that Unity 3D, the powerful 3D game engine, was free at last. I thought it was too good to be true, so I investigated further. For those of you who don’t know, Unity 3D is a really powerful enviornment that [...]

A few months ago I bought a 08 pin picaxe protoboard from Sparkfun. I soldered all the components in place and hooked it up to my PC to program. And of course, I got an error, because it would just be too easy if things worked the first time, wouldn’t it? I spent a good [...]

Many LEDs and resistors selflessly gave their lives in the development of the BW Science Labs Store’s newest kit, the Dual Power UV LED Flashlight kit. Their sacrifice has not been in vain… While developing this kit I uncovered my true love for Ultra-violet LEDs. There just plain awesome! You can use them to detect [...]

Global At MAX 2009 Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch shows Flash 10.1 on a bunch of mobile devices. Micro I’ve spent the weekend working on the next BW Science Labs Store kits, including prototyping a mini UV LED kit and designing a line following robot. I’ve also been able to work a bit more on my [...]

I spent most of my day packaging Vivus the Robot kits, which involves unpacking lots of boxes, taking out the microcontroller, plugging them into my PC, and programming them one at a time. However, I did manage to find the time to continue working on BW Science Labs’s next kit, a mini UV LED kit [...]