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 [...]

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 [...]

After much time and effort this weekend, I finally managed to put together the very detailed, hold-your-hand style instructions for the Vivus the Robot kit, being sold in the BW Science Labs Store. You can also read the Vivus the Robot Instructable if you prefer that instead. I had to take apart my own Vivus, [...]

I’ve been burned, electrocuted, and attacked by a rampaging robot* enough time to know the basic “do”s and “don’t”s of robotics. I think we forgot to solder in the off switch… I’m by no means an expert, but all the same I have a bit of advice for the beginner robotics hobbyist. I recommend that [...]

I could not keep my engineering side at bay for long, even with a malfunctioning soldering station I had to do something. I wound up using my very-sub-par Radioshack (of course) soldering iron until I can get my real station replaced. It was worth the pain of using a Radioshack product, as my most awesome [...]