Category: Physics

Look good for the upcoming physics teacher meeting!

This coming weekend is the annual spring meeting of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers.   Whenever I want to buy a tie or some jewelry with an astronomy theme, I need to wait for the National Science Teachers Meeting to come to town.  I always visit the booth of Astronomy […]

Electricity

So I am trying to finish up answering the long pile of e-mails.  Leonardo should be asleep.  I just heard from his room “Daddy, come look at my physics experiment.  Look at what the electricity is doing.”  He has this giant 3 foot tall stuffed teddy bear.  He was rubbing it on his head and […]

Snow and ice

Too much snow.  The lead page on BUs website is about snow, but not around here.  Snow down in Antarctica explored by BU Professor Marchant. The other lead article worth reading is Time Magazine.  I just recently got a subscription to Time on my Kindle for Alejandro to read.  And noticed an article about BU […]

Go Patriots! And deflategate deflated.

The American Association of Physics teachers had an interesting analysis.  The gist of the analysis consisted of the temperature differences.  In a couple weeks we will be studying gas laws in physics and I see some physics problems coming up (or maybe even a test question). To quote the AAPT website. In this section, I […]

I got an Aeronautics Award

So I just got the below note in my e-mail tonight!  Although many think I only play with robots and LEGOS, before I got into robots, my main focus was astronomy and flying airplanes.  I still teach an aeronautical engineering camp in the summer with the BU College of Engineering and launch rockets with the […]

My Video is out!

About a year ago I started working on a video for the classroom  with the MIT BLOSSOMS project.   You can watch my video and download the lesson plans here. It took about a year to produce this.  I was one of several teachers selected last January to produce videos for the classroom. To quote from […]

LEGO Discovery Center

I just finished the preface for my new LEGO book, so I decided to treat myself with a trip to the new LEGO discovery center.  I particularly like all of the models in Miniland built by the Master Builder,  Ian Coffey.  I now have it in my mind to build a model of BU Academy, […]

Packt’s $5 eBonanza returns

So I am buying Alejandro a Kindle for XMAS.  I was thinking what should I get for him to download, and I found this offer!  Packt has a huge range of books.  Most of them are primarily e-books.  So this is a great chance to find some winter reading!  And you can even pre-order my […]

3D Printing

So recently, we at BUA have begun to play with 3D Printing.  Two alums (Craig Broady and Parker Porfilio) work at FormLabs. We had the Printer up and running at our FIRST LEGO League tournament! We already printed a part for our robot!  It is an grey box to hold an electronics board to hold […]

UAV Here come the drones

The Spring Meeting of the New England Section of AAPT will be on the Drones.   I am in the midst of organizing this meeting. So are Drones in the news? A lot of people are getting drones for XMAS according to Bloomberg. “If you find a drone under the Christmas tree next week, it […]