The Adafruit blog just posted a neat papercraft resistor calculator. If you haven’t yet learned the horribly offensive mnemonic for resistor color codes, now’s your chance to have a cheap and ...

What’s your favorite value of resistor? 1K? 10K? They’re all fine, but when you need nearly no resistance at all, nothing beats the good old zero-ohm resistor. Wait a minute! Resistors are ...

This is a handy resistor colour code “calculator” that doesn’t need power supply or to be installed on a PC. As you know most resistors use coloured bands in order to show their value. So basically ...

Using standard resistor values can greatly impact the accuracy and predictability of a circuit ... The arguments are: 1) an arbitrary value in Ohms; 2) a desired tolerance value (1%, 2%, “E12,” “E96,” ...

Using a low-value resistor to sense current is a direct application of Ohm’s Law, yet requires understanding of the key parameters and tradeoffs. Although there are several ways to sense current ...

(E.g., nine 1-ohm resistors for the first, nine 10-ohm resistors for the next, and so on.) 3) Set aside one resistor in each set. Bend the leads of the other eight resistors to fit across ...