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Uploaded by on Dec 10, 2008

Simple, commonplace and vital to our electronic world - take a closer look at the current-fighting backbone of circuitry, the resistor!


more Make presents:

The LED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3PDLsJQcGI

The Capacitor -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYH9dGl4gUE

audio & video by Collin Cunningham
Makezine.com

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  • THIS is 5 minutes...at school we spent 10 total hours about it...the school system is WRONG!

  • The reason I like ALL MAKE electronic videos is because it shows us that we can make our own capacitors, LEDs, resistors....basically telling us that they are everyday stuff and within experimentation and understanding, that our technology is not made by some space alien and all that crap.

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  • Thank you Colin

  • These videos make me want to learn more. My brother is an EE and he does have a talent for teaching, but you summed up in 5 mins what would have taken him a week. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. I'll be referring to this video often.

  • interesting, so does it matter how dark you shade in the resistor on the paper???

  • @Moongazerr

    Ha, my electronics teacher taught us that.

  • You rock

  • Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violeta Gave Willingly

    for resistor color coding.

  • You know, I have a receding hairline, and this is the first guy that pops into my head when im standing there at the bathroom mirror thinking "ITS ALL OVER" this guy looks fucking awesome. This guy knows how to pull off the receding hairline. He gives me hope. :')

  • Really nice experiment, I will try out different figures to see how it goes :)

    

  • @kindpotato Amps were named after a French engineer called Ampere. But nobody seems to care about him much... poor guy...

  • WTF......... !!! 8-O

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