I never study deep into Fallout universe, all I know about Brotherhood of Steel is they are bunch of nice guys in Fallout 3.
In Fallout 3, BoS did not give any bad impression to me. But BoS in Mojave...they are really looks like fanatic as Mr. House suggested.
If they are so obsess toward tech, shouldn't they belong to Outcast?
Yup as Peter said the Mojave chapter and outcasts are the real brotherhood. Their goals are to basically hoard old world technology.
Lyon's brotherhood had the same goals but eventually Lyon's felt bad for the Capital Wasteland and wanted to help them. So instead of looking for technology they decided to help out the capital wasteland. The outcasts are a branch of Lyon's brotherhood. They didn't like how he strayed from their goals and left. They then settled down in fort independence and have been trying to contact the main BrotherHood on the west coast
Atleast that's how I think it works