MAKE alumnus and supernerd Collin Cunningham rhapsodizes about everyone’s favorite current-fighting backbone of circuitry–the resistor–in this classic MAKE video. Collin talks about Ohm’s Law, resistor color codes, and using pencil graphite to make paper resistors.
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this is typically wonderful from Collin – thank you!
and (i swear this is) the last time i’m annoy moderation about this; but is there any reason to have a “tag” system on the makezine site and not have this excellent video also appear here:
http://blog.makezine.com/tag/collinslab/
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This is great. If you want more detail about resistor color codes (and a lot else about resistors) go the Analog Devices website and see this in the “Rarely Asked Questions” area:
http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/rarely_asked_questions/moreInfo_raq_resistors.html