This site is a space to document and share my experience, resources and insight as a Engineering Educator & Mechatronics Engineering Instructor. My goal is to teach you technical stuff like Science, Math and Geeky Robot Stuff... This site will always be a work in progress. While I'm always working on Electronics and Engineering curriculum, lessons and labs for my SVCTE Mechatronics class. Teachers... I'm here for you... I’m a true believer in Opensource and creative commons licensing, I'll be sharing lots of Opensource and Creative Commons curriculum here. Be a Hero: Allow your content and software to be freely used, modified, and shared.
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Jim Burnham is currently a Mechatronics Instructor at Silicon Valley Career Technical Education High School. Mechatronics means, “Fire Breathing Robots”. Teaching High School has always “noodled” in his head, and in 2016, he made the jump from Corporate world to teaching High School students.
First teaching a year of Cybersecurity, and then in 2017, started a Mechatronics program at Silicon Valley CTE. Jim has taught summer STEAM academies, Youth technology workshops, Boy Scouts (herding cats) and other workshops that include teaching kids how to hack the world with Arduino’s and Raspberry Pi’s.
He especially enjoys teaching students about microcontrollers & microcomputers. Helping them learn to code, many for the first time. Jim’s language skills include, Spanish, Python, Perl, HTML, C and C++, VHDL and Verilog.