Merry Christmas everyone. It sounds like a lot of people have gotten the Vivus the Robot kit for Christmas and are enjoying it. I’m working on redoing the BW Science Labs website, and will be moving from Blogger to the WordPress platform to integrate the store and blog. Unfortunately this also involves the less fun [...]

I’ve survived the first day of final exams, 2 down and 4 more to go! Here’s an interesting project called The Lumen, a 3D display that adds depth to 2D images. The neatest part is how they get each little pixel up and down; they use a wires made of “shape memory allow” that expand [...]

As a young, somewhat lost, soon-to-be-engineer I loved watching Bre Petis’s weekend project video series on MAKE, where a DIY project would be made into a simple video tutorial so even the most lost engineers could follow. As you might imagine, the day Bre’s videos stopped was a sad one. Bre Petis later had his [...]

This weekend I began development of the next BW Science Labs kit, a robot that would have far greater functionality and awareness than Vivus. I can’t say I’ve ever had a single flawless prototyping experience. I always seems to destroy one invaluable component or another. This was no exception. I wound up over applying 1/2 [...]

Here’s the situation: You have the most massive idea ever. You just drank 3 red bulls and you’re convinced that your laser sunglasses will sell like one of Apple’s computers that come out every other day. The problem: you have $3 in your Paypal account after buying some nun chucks and X-Ray vision goggles. So, [...]