Embedded above is a short segment produced by Make about one of our most fundamental circuit components: the resistor. Although brief at just five minutes, it covers resistor basics and the historical development of Ohm’s law.
Good video, but you’re right, it’s too quick, i’d like something a bit more juicy.
Posted at 8:24 pm on Dec 13th, 2008 by Andrew
@anonymous: I thought the same..
Posted at 8:30 pm on Dec 13th, 2008 by marz
An excellent Audio Visual supplement to the subject of resistors for anyone young or old, whom maybe be studying Basic Electronics.
Posted at 12:51 am on Dec 14th, 2008 by stonefisk
I guess it depends on your skill level, I found a useful little video, I enjoyed the paper resistor at the end, very informative.
Posted at 2:29 am on Dec 14th, 2008 by Reggie
This is cool none the less.I am always looking for simple ways to get the kids involved in building/hacking/discovering. I am going to do this with them and teach them about resistors.
Posted at 9:28 am on Dec 14th, 2008 by Stephen
yeah great well done, wish i’d seen something like this at school, i might have paid more attention and be able to remember the colour codes
Posted at 4:30 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by ourmanflint
This was super boring
Posted at 7:27 am on Dec 15th, 2008 by knox
This is the most worst thing i’ve never seen. This is to explain how the resistors work with a perl of humour, but think this humour is too much in this kind of subject…
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At 5 minutes and free, I wasn’t expecting much, but at least mention voltage dividers, and maybe reference how resistors can change charge/discharge rates of caps. By explaining a voltage divider, at least newbies can get an idea how a volume knob works.
Posted at 11:58 am on Dec 16th, 2008 by MachineHead
I like it! But I have a MINOR problem… or two..
1)Cant find my alligator clips! But I DO have a mutimeter!
2)My Multimeter just says 1., the whole time, unless I touch the positive and negative ends togeter.
Posted at 3:25 pm on Mar 8th, 2009 by Robert
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Pretty basic, and really slow…
Whole video should have been 2 minutes, for the content in it.
Posted at 8:07 pm on Dec 13th, 2008 by Anonymous