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 [...]

Seeing that this is the 100th post on BW Science labs I thought that merited a really cool post. BW Science Labs now has a mascot named Vivus the GoBot. Vivus the GoBot has been under development for a long time. I chose to use the picaxe axe023 microcontroller board because it was low cost [...]

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 [...]

I built this little fella in a matter of minutes, and it cost me nothing. I built it from scrap metal I had on hand and 2 motors I extracted from old Xbox controllers. I would love for this site to be a guide, but rather than list out all the steps as I normally [...]