About Teach Me To Make
Teach Me To Make teaches art and technology using a hands-on tinkering approach.
Judy Aime’ Castro and her CoffeeBots featured on The Mercury News by Laura Case
Classes and Workshop
Teach Me To Make is always available for consulting and for private individual and group classes in electronics, electromechanics, and other creative technologies to meet your needs.
Please email me:
teachers@teachmetomake.com
judyaime@gmail.com
Past Events
May 2013 How to Build CoffeBots article publish on Make magazine in volume 34
Michael and Judy will be teaching Arudino workshops in the Arduino tent at the San Mateo Maker Faire.
March 2011
Michael and Judy taught an Arduino Robotics class at The Exploratorium, in San Francisco
October 2011
Michael taught an Arduino class at The Crucible, in Oakland
October 2011
Teach Me To Make was featured in an article on Arduino in the Contra Costa Times. Page 1 and page 2 of the print version, which is slightly different from the online version.
Judy gave a talk at San Francisco State University
September 2011
Michael led a special Arduino workshop at California College of the Arts
May 2011
Arduino with a Wood & Nail Breadboard as part of the post-Maker Faire Workshop Weekend, at Tech Liminal in Oakland.
Basic Electronics/Arduino Workshop at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco campus.
We were the Arduino experts at Maker Faire and hopefully inspired newcomers to explore tinkering with Arduino
Teach Me To Make 
June 29, 2014 at 9:36 am |
I’m not sure why but this weblog is loading extremely slow for me.
Is anyone else having this issue or is it a problem on my end?
I’ll check back later on and see if the problem still exists.
September 3, 2014 at 5:38 pm |
This looks cool 😎
September 9, 2014 at 5:19 pm |
Hi,
I can try. What are you trying to do, and where are you having trouble?
Michael
February 4, 2017 at 2:47 am
Hey michel, I want to make a circuit using ldr(light dependent resistor) such that whenever light does not fall on the ldr, the 12v motor should start and when light falls on it, the motor should stop. Maybe a phototransistor be replaced to Ldr. I tried a circuit with bc547 transistor but the transistor was burned out due to high voltage. Can you please help me in making this circuit.
Vardhan
March 31, 2017 at 3:25 pm
There are many ways to approach such a project. The individual values for the resistors depend a lot on the specific LDR and the ambient light. A quick Google for relevant terms should turn up some circuits.
As to why your transistor failed, I doubt it was the voltage – most of it is current that damages transistors. (although certainly the higher the voltage the higher the current.) If you provide the circuit that you used I might point out what might have gone wrong.