Lab on‑a‑Book

Award-Winning Learning Platform

An AI-powered
science
lab.

A tool that helps students do what scientists do.

Lab-on-a-Book turns reading into an experiment. Work through the chapters at your own pace — and whenever a question comes up, Lab-on-a-Bot is right here to help you think it through.

Ask Lab‑on‑a‑Bot ↓
Lab-on-a-Book — Hands-on Chemistry for Curious Minds

01 — How it works

A book.
A lab.
An AI.

01 Read

A Chapter

Each chapter builds one idea at a time, with hands-on experiments you do yourself — no fancy lab required.

02 Ask

Anything

Stuck on a concept? Lab-on-a-Bot knows the whole book and explains it your way — like a patient tutor.

03 Private

By Design

The AI runs entirely on your own computer. No cloud, no API key, no data leaving your device — ever.

02 — Your AI companion

Meet
Lab‑on‑a‑Bot.

Your curiosity companion for every Lab-on-a-Book experiment. It runs privately on your own computer — no internet required after setup, no data ever leaves your device.

Lab-on-a-Bot
on your device

⚙️ Setup

Choose how you'd like to connect Lab-on-a-Bot.

  1. Install Ollama. Download it from ollama.com, open it, and leave it running.
  2. Get the model. Open a terminal and run: ollama pull llama3.1:8b
    This is a ~5 GB download and works best on a laptop with about 16 GB of RAM. It downloads once and runs offline after that.
    For the photo-analysis feature, also run (optional, ~5 GB): ollama pull llama3.2-vision
  3. Allow this page to connect. Run the line for your computer, then quit and reopen Ollama:
    Show the command

    Mac: launchctl setenv OLLAMA_ORIGINS "*"

    Windows: setx OLLAMA_ORIGINS "*"

    Linux: run Ollama with OLLAMA_ORIGINS=* ollama serve

    (Skip this step if you opened this page from a localhost address.)

Only the experiment chapter and question type are shared — never your words or identity. This is off by default.