As always, you can find links to these under my "Parts / Products List" linked in my bio. They're under the "components" tab or you can just search "breadboard" and they'll pop right up!
@@Cronyxx It really is I just look, Admitted the 6 band ones can be difficult too see without a magnifying glass, But basic four bands are easy Bk, Br, Rd, Or, Ye, Ge, Bu, Vi, Gy, Wh. Same as cable markers,
These look super neat! Personally i put off learning to just read resistor codes but after finding stupid flash games to learn 4 and 5 band resistors my life has changed for the better.
I'm sure they are more expensive, but they are reusable right? Plus they are used for bread board learning and confirming new ideas without building a whole brand new thing without knowing if it will work for the problem you have. With all those very important uses how do you put a price on $$$ the money they cost within reason of course.
@@jnharton no. you would just buy precision resistors. and they are so expensive (like $3-5 a pop) that you will probably redesign your circuit to tolerate small variances before you actually consider using them unless is absolutely necessary. regular resistors can change their values slightly with temperature and just use, so what you see on your multimeter might be a point of percent different later.
@@gredystar8333 No, you'd buy a pot and set it with a multimeter, this is prototyping. This product is dumb, learning to check, doublecheck etc is part of the stuff people are supposed to learn to do. If you're not prototyping and it really matters, you measure multiple and select one that is within the required spec. precision stuff is daft to use for virtually every use case, buy a ton of cheap ones and measure and sort them. Precision ones only make sense if there is a required environment temp variation tolerance required that is difficult to test and measure for some reason.
This is cool for small projects for new people like you mentioned, otherwise we just get to recognize our personal resistor collection by experience and we arent limited by hard pin spacing.
But resistors have a "variable length", you may place them with the size of 2 pins or even long 10 pins far You miss that benefit with your thingy And brown black rainbow gold is fairly easy to remember yellow = 100k orange = 10k red = 1k brown = 100ohm Fairly common resistor types, easy to remember
I am writing and will be teaching a curriculum for a microcontroller class at summer camp for elementary and middle school students. Definitely will be picking these up for them. Thanks for allowing us to spend more time learning rather than dealing with tiny resistors.
No. Learning how to measure and determine the resistance of a resistor is an entry level electronics skill. If people plan on having a career in electronics but can't read a resistor they'll inevitably fail.
@@MrRobarino I appreciate the concern, however this isn’t some sort of boot camp to prepare people for a job. Our goal is to try and spark very young children’s curiosity over a single short week. We want them to have fun and if they develop an interest in electronics engineering, that’s a great outcome. The smaller (but undoubtedly useful) skills will be something they will learn once they are older in high school, college, or beyond.
@@abetoday but it's like saying: I DON'T KNOW IF MY WIFE IS CHEATING ON ME BUT THERE'S A EASY WAY TO FIND OUT, JUST GET A DIVORCE AND MARRY SOMEONE ELSE
@@Leonard-nb7jk not getting pressed, chill fanboys, I'm just pointing out he started saying something and ended up doing something else, I don't get the need to lie in a video to get views HEY, HERE'S AN EASIER WAY TO FIX IT, BUY ANOTHER ONE.... Anyway, I'm not subscribed here anyway so I have no need to defend him anyway, I'm just gonna click NOT INTERESTED and move on, so many TH-camrs do this these days
Thats why I like soviet resistor markings they just straight decimal or printed markings and not cryptic rings that may have very alike color and inherently error-prone
Turns out I am and there is no way I'm getting these for my students. Learning how to use real components is part of the curriculum. We can't spoon feed everything. I actually feel a bit sad for you that you crave the need for those after uni. You would be amazed how quickly junior students pick up how to read proper component codes when appropriately supervised. And a polarity indicator on a diode? What a great idea! It's almost like there should be a grey or black line to indicate where the cathode is...
I also used to be a university instructor, though in software engineering rather than electrical, but I think the concepts transfer well enough. What I found was that in introductory courses specifically, you have to pick your battles regarding what you decide to teach. An auxiliary skill like reading resistor markings might seem easy to someone familiar in the field. To a new student however, who might have only learned what resistance even means just a few days ago, it's a different story. It adds to their mental load and contributes to the noise that might stop them from developing the core skills the course aims to teach. When you consider that most introductory courses needs to cover a lot of material in a short time (usually 4 weeks full-time at my university), to me it made sense to minimize the time students spent on auxiliary skills. They can always pick them up in later courses if they stay in the field, and they will usually find that very easy once the fundamentals are solid.
Unless things have changed in the last 20 years, at least here in North America, isnt the schematic symbol for a resistor a zig zag line and not a rectangular box? I know the two symbols are interchangeable, and the rectangular box might be more common in Europe, but what I learned in school was the zig zag line.
They seem to sit better so for doing proof of concept it might be best because you could have a good idea but trying it on a bread board introduces bugs, so you end up failing and moving on. These components with say, the jumperless breadboard would be awesome!
You can use a simple multimeter. They are very useful for electronics projects. Here's a video how to check the resistance: m.th-cam.com/video/1bohzeqWW8I/w-d-xo.html
Well I guess if you are wanting to use these over priced and unnecessary type of components then look for a school that only has digital clocks. It's the same concept.
The downside. you cannot set how far apart the holes you want to use are. I can stand a normal resistor on its end and use 2 holes next to each other, or bend the very tips and go halfway across the board. I can usually remember the values of the resistors I am using. I genuinely don't get this product.
When I was younger the cost of compents was whay drove me put of it for years. Coat os a hige factor. It's easy to learn to read them by memory, though I have forgotten these days.
Resistors used to have their resisitance written on them. That was dropped, because you can only see that from a few angles, hence the stripes we have today
I usually just have some 2,54mm pinheaders on which i solder the things onto and write onto it with a white marker which value(s) they are/need this is a much cleaner product though
Personlly, I'd kinda like some of these at least for easy prototyping on breadboards. I'm not the greatest fan of getting out the loupe and trying to figure out what they were going for with the crappy browny/reddy/orangey ink they used for that band, or even which way round I'm reading it, as lots of resistors don't have gold/silver tolerance bands. I get a resistor with brown-red-black-black-brown as the bands, what resistance is it?
No. Learning how to measure and determine the resistance of a resistor is an entry level electronics skill. If you plan on having a career in electronics and you can't read a resistor then you'll fail.
@@IneptOrange I learned the color code system when I was 9 or 10. it's not difficult. it also is one of those things that is fun for kids to learn, because it's a tiny amount of rote memorization and feels like decoding a secret message. that said, through-hole parts were much more common in the 70s and 80s than they are today. it's probably not a hugely essential a skill these days.
Definitely good for prototyping but you would probably never put it in an actual device so the price doesn't seem like it would be too bad of a problem
I just realized I've forgotten the resistor color codes. If you memorize them you can just read the residence of a common component. I haven't done that in forever.
Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white. 0 to 9 (There are some memory aids for this, but my favorite can't be repeated on TH-cam) First and second bars values third bar scale multiplier. Example orange, orange, orange 3.3K ohms. 4th bar I believe is tollerance, but that's rarely been important to me.
I wish I had this the night before I had to hand in an assignment and destroyed my only breadboard at the time by smashing a resistor in too deep and getting stuck. I fixed it but it took a very long time.
if you see this blue resistor. throw it away, unless you want to waste your time figuring out the value, blue resistors are to read without enough white light , yellow look green, brown look black and red look like brown or violet sometime
It's great for first day, but like you should't write notes on piano keys, i would recommend you learn the colors of common used resistors like 220, 1k and 10k
That's if you don't know collor codes and have to look them up... if you do, and work with it all the time all it takes is 1 glance to know the resistance.
For me the bigger benefit seem to be solid legs. Bare resistors, capacitors and transistors have flimsy legs tha give poor contacts and tend to break after a few uses.
Honestly, if they fit in whatever project I'm working on, I'd just use these in place of the regular components. I have a hard time seeing the color codes on resistors and it's annoying to have to measure each one I pick up with a multimeter just to make sure I have the right one.
I keep the resistors I use for breadboarding organized by value group. Resistors < 1K ohm go into their own compartment; same with 1K - 9K9, 10K - 99k, 100K -999K, etc..
Or you could just do what most people do and use a multimeter to read the resistance. If you are doing anything electrical or electronic you should have a multimeter.
I wonder why they use color codes instead of literally just putting the numbers on them like capacitors. I'm sure theres a reason but as someone new to electronics it makes everything more confusing and slower to do projects because i have to either keep everything very organized or read it with a multimeter lol
I'm assuming early on it was just 1000 x faster and cheaper to paint in lines that print numbers. Just spin it while it's in contact with something to deposit your selected paint. Nowadays? Idk if it would be as the same but it's established as the standard. I know I'll never learn it, I just use it so infrequently, so for me these probably would be a great product. I just already have more resistors than I'll use in my lifetime and am super cheap when it comes to my non-primary interests.
As always, you can find links to these under my "Parts / Products List" linked in my bio. They're under the "components" tab or you can just search "breadboard" and they'll pop right up!
Can you really not read resistor colours in your head?
@@dogwalker666 it’s not really THAT easy but he could use a multimeter
@@Cronyxx It really is I just look, Admitted the 6 band ones can be difficult too see without a magnifying glass, But basic four bands are easy Bk, Br, Rd, Or, Ye, Ge, Bu, Vi, Gy, Wh. Same as cable markers,
@@dogwalker666 I would just use a multimeter cause it seems easier
@@Cronyxx Dont forget to De solder the resistor before measuring them, We would have failed our exams if we didn't know the code.
Decode resistor? No!
Read resistor with multi? Yes!
Just look at the colour code it's not difficult!
I just came here to write the very same. some products need to create the problem they wanna solve
Just read the color code! It’s so simple. First band, 1st digit, 2nd band, 2nd digit, 3rd band how many zeros. Cmon people
@@ryangagnon5489 Agreed, Works with cable numbers too.
Yep, you also don't need to worry about tolerance at that point either, as long as your multi is calibrated proper.
This isn't a hack, it's a product...
Cry more
Cry harder
What are these replies 💀
@@thehansboi Cry harder 👹
I think all the engineers are with you on this one. Such a gimmick 😭
These look super neat! Personally i put off learning to just read resistor codes but after finding stupid flash games to learn 4 and 5 band resistors my life has changed for the better.
I taught myself as a kid, Fun Fact cable markers also use resistor colour code, You can read the cable number without seeing the printed characters.
@@dogwalker666 cool! I had no idea
Non politically correct mnemonic for remembering the color code, starting with black = zero: Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly.
10 times bigger and probably cost 50 times more
you only need a couple of each for breadboarding, you use the smaller, cheaper ones on the real boards
I'm sure they are more expensive, but they are reusable right? Plus they are used for bread board learning and confirming new ideas without building a whole brand new thing without knowing if it will work for the problem you have.
With all those very important uses how do you put a price on $$$ the money they cost within reason of course.
@troykinnison4575 A regular resistor is reusable. They are also more useful because change lead size to what you need for the space you got.
You're that old guy who whines about young kids in the parking lot.
@@TheAechBombisn’t the point of “an easier way to read the resistor hack”, is to be able to know which resistor to use?
When I was breadboarding in school using the actual parts you were going to use in a build would help identify problems before you started soldering.
Meanwhile I'm over here measuring all my resistors with a multimeter anyway.
If you want exactly 10k ohms, then you have to do that...
@@jnhartonIt is extremely rare that you need a resistance to 0.001% of the stated value.
They have the value printed on in a colour code, just look at them!
@@jnharton no. you would just buy precision resistors. and they are so expensive (like $3-5 a pop) that you will probably redesign your circuit to tolerate small variances before you actually consider using them unless is absolutely necessary. regular resistors can change their values slightly with temperature and just use, so what you see on your multimeter might be a point of percent different later.
@@gredystar8333 No, you'd buy a pot and set it with a multimeter, this is prototyping. This product is dumb, learning to check, doublecheck etc is part of the stuff people are supposed to learn to do. If you're not prototyping and it really matters, you measure multiple and select one that is within the required spec. precision stuff is daft to use for virtually every use case, buy a ton of cheap ones and measure and sort them. Precision ones only make sense if there is a required environment temp variation tolerance required that is difficult to test and measure for some reason.
Is fixed, you cant change the lenght of bridges
Also is better to know colors..
This is cool for small projects for new people like you mentioned, otherwise we just get to recognize our personal resistor collection by experience and we arent limited by hard pin spacing.
I like the little bits of magic you do from time to time.
So crazy it took us this long to have these for the hobbyists. I’m sure modern manufacturing had a part in it
Perhaps because you can just learn to read regular components, it's not that hard. And a lot cheaper too!
@@asronome yeah, you could use a multimeter for the resistors
But resistors have a "variable length", you may place them with the size of 2 pins or even long 10 pins far
You miss that benefit with your thingy
And brown black rainbow gold is fairly easy to remember
yellow = 100k
orange = 10k
red = 1k
brown = 100ohm
Fairly common resistor types, easy to remember
correction: gold black brown rainbow 👍
Gold is the tolerance.
Colorblind people probably can't see the difference between the colors
black brown rainbow gray white
@@Graham_Wideman Black = 0, Brown = 1, Rainbow = ?, Grey = 8, White = 9, What is Rainbow?
I am writing and will be teaching a curriculum for a microcontroller class at summer camp for elementary and middle school students. Definitely will be picking these up for them. Thanks for allowing us to spend more time learning rather than dealing with tiny resistors.
No. Learning how to measure and determine the resistance of a resistor is an entry level electronics skill. If people plan on having a career in electronics but can't read a resistor they'll inevitably fail.
@@MrRobarino I appreciate the concern, however this isn’t some sort of boot camp to prepare people for a job. Our goal is to try and spark very young children’s curiosity over a single short week. We want them to have fun and if they develop an interest in electronics engineering, that’s a great outcome. The smaller (but undoubtedly useful) skills will be something they will learn once they are older in high school, college, or beyond.
@@MrRobarino
What a braindead comment.
If you want children to retain interest, reducing friction to entry is immensely helpful.
You started saying there was an easier way to tell then moved to show a different product lol
Yeah the easier way is to use the other thing :)
@@abetoday but it's like saying: I DON'T KNOW IF MY WIFE IS CHEATING ON ME BUT THERE'S A EASY WAY TO FIND OUT, JUST GET A DIVORCE AND MARRY SOMEONE ELSE
@@ForeverManchillout, we get what youre saying and so does he, but it doesn't matter
The point was to showcase alternative styles, which I think are objectively useful in knowing. Why are you getting so pressed bro
@@Leonard-nb7jk not getting pressed, chill fanboys, I'm just pointing out he started saying something and ended up doing something else, I don't get the need to lie in a video to get views HEY, HERE'S AN EASIER WAY TO FIX IT, BUY ANOTHER ONE.... Anyway, I'm not subscribed here anyway so I have no need to defend him anyway, I'm just gonna click NOT INTERESTED and move on, so many TH-camrs do this these days
these are lit. very helpful for beginners. thank you
Thats why I like soviet resistor markings they just straight decimal or printed markings and not cryptic rings that may have very alike color and inherently error-prone
Imagine thinking products made for something specific is a hack...
Omg those look so much more convenient
Haven't seen this before. Very nice!
I wish I had these when I was at the University. If I was a teacher I'd definitely get those.
Turns out I am and there is no way I'm getting these for my students. Learning how to use real components is part of the curriculum. We can't spoon feed everything.
I actually feel a bit sad for you that you crave the need for those after uni. You would be amazed how quickly junior students pick up how to read proper component codes when appropriately supervised.
And a polarity indicator on a diode? What a great idea! It's almost like there should be a grey or black line to indicate where the cathode is...
I also used to be a university instructor, though in software engineering rather than electrical, but I think the concepts transfer well enough. What I found was that in introductory courses specifically, you have to pick your battles regarding what you decide to teach. An auxiliary skill like reading resistor markings might seem easy to someone familiar in the field. To a new student however, who might have only learned what resistance even means just a few days ago, it's a different story. It adds to their mental load and contributes to the noise that might stop them from developing the core skills the course aims to teach. When you consider that most introductory courses needs to cover a lot of material in a short time (usually 4 weeks full-time at my university), to me it made sense to minimize the time students spent on auxiliary skills. They can always pick them up in later courses if they stay in the field, and they will usually find that very easy once the fundamentals are solid.
@@geeksheureux take your elitism and shove it, "teach". you know what they say: if you can't do, then teach.
@@blarghblargh You made me laugh, boy :D
Unless things have changed in the last 20 years, at least here in North America, isnt the schematic symbol for a resistor a zig zag line and not a rectangular box? I know the two symbols are interchangeable, and the rectangular box might be more common in Europe, but what I learned in school was the zig zag line.
I could read the color code
OR
Buy completely new parts.
Nice hack 👍
Works on my car as well. I could clean the ash tray or buy a new one 😅
You smoke inside your cat? 😢
Win-win here! Little gem channels like this make the world go round!
They seem to sit better so for doing proof of concept it might be best because you could have a good idea but trying it on a bread board introduces bugs, so you end up failing and moving on. These components with say, the jumperless breadboard would be awesome!
I love it, but if you are doing a project it’s usually known what resistors you are using.
Yes, that's nice. But, what is the resistance of the first resistor?
I was definitely expecting you to pull out some rig you had made that test resistors and shows the resistance on a screen
You can use a simple multimeter. They are very useful for electronics projects. Here's a video how to check the resistance:
m.th-cam.com/video/1bohzeqWW8I/w-d-xo.html
@@tauskicombat I'm aware of that, I was just hoping for a cool project he built to plug in components with a display
If I wanted to learn basic electronics prototyping at the local community college, what kinda class would I go take?
Schools aren't all going to offer the same courses. Go online and find out which courses are offered by the school you want to go to..
Well I guess if you are wanting to use these over priced and unnecessary type of components then look for a school that only has digital clocks. It's the same concept.
The downside. you cannot set how far apart the holes you want to use are. I can stand a normal resistor on its end and use 2 holes next to each other, or bend the very tips and go halfway across the board.
I can usually remember the values of the resistors I am using.
I genuinely don't get this product.
I wonder if there's a smartphone app to tell what the resistance is. I don't have a smartphone since I have a life and thus can't check
Good idea but. It can't handle much power because it's SMD
This is pretty cool. I was actually looking to get my son started in electronics projects with me so this could be useful
But isn’t that resistor a lower wattage compared to the first one you showed? The first was a 1/4 watt, the one on the PCB is even lower is it not?
Yes, Watts the Wattage??
When I was younger the cost of compents was whay drove me put of it for years. Coat os a hige factor. It's easy to learn to read them by memory, though I have forgotten these days.
Just use regular components and glue or tape a vertical flag (for smaller footprint) with writing on them.
Resistors used to have their resisitance written on them. That was dropped, because you can only see that from a few angles, hence the stripes we have today
I use these moments to remind myself of my multimeter (mine is a UT139C. Do not get a UT139A)
It has an ohm measuring function
Great tip.
I usually just have some 2,54mm pinheaders on which i solder the things onto and write onto it with a white marker which value(s) they are/need
this is a much cleaner product though
When I was at university we had to learn the E12 series off by heart and know the color code.
It really isn't hard.
So...
What's the resistance of the resistor?
So your solution is to not bother with standard resistors? That's not a hack, that's consumerism
good for beginners but after building up experience you can easily read the color bands just as if you are reading text.
Personlly, I'd kinda like some of these at least for easy prototyping on breadboards. I'm not the greatest fan of getting out the loupe and trying to figure out what they were going for with the crappy browny/reddy/orangey ink they used for that band, or even which way round I'm reading it, as lots of resistors don't have gold/silver tolerance bands. I get a resistor with brown-red-black-black-brown as the bands, what resistance is it?
resistance colours are super easy! Black, Brown, then all the colours of the rainbow, in order, then grey, and finally white.
Just 6 of the colours of the rainbow (indigo is omitted).
Wow I want those! Where do I get them?
Check out the "Products / Parts list" linked in my bio, just search for "breadboard"!
Shut up and take my money! Ordering immediately
IT IS NOT A HACK!!!
You are using them precisely what they were designed for!
Good God I hate how many people use shorts as ads. 🤢
reminds me of a CBer trying to learn morse code.
These need to be put into schools immediately.
No. Learning how to measure and determine the resistance of a resistor is an entry level electronics skill. If you plan on having a career in electronics and you can't read a resistor then you'll fail.
@@MrRobarino I mean for younger children you dolt. To learn the basics. You know, what schools are for.
@@IneptOrange I learned the color code system when I was 9 or 10. it's not difficult. it also is one of those things that is fun for kids to learn, because it's a tiny amount of rote memorization and feels like decoding a secret message.
that said, through-hole parts were much more common in the 70s and 80s than they are today. it's probably not a hugely essential a skill these days.
Definitely good for prototyping but you would probably never put it in an actual device so the price doesn't seem like it would be too bad of a problem
That is so cool. Makes things so much easier, and clean on your breadboard.
old 1/4w resistor where big with nice color but nowdays chinise resitor are tiny with thin terminal .
An LCR meter for $20 works wonders too!
I just realized I've forgotten the resistor color codes. If you memorize them you can just read the residence of a common component. I haven't done that in forever.
They're burned into my brain. I think they'll be one of the last things I forget if I get dementia.
Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white. 0 to 9 (There are some memory aids for this, but my favorite can't be repeated on TH-cam)
First and second bars values third bar scale multiplier. Example orange, orange, orange 3.3K ohms. 4th bar I believe is tollerance, but that's rarely been important to me.
I wish I had this the night before I had to hand in an assignment and destroyed my only breadboard at the time by smashing a resistor in too deep and getting stuck. I fixed it but it took a very long time.
Pretty neat! You could just expend a few neurons on memorizing the resistor code, though.
bruh just use a multimeter why'd you buy a whole new set off overly expensive resistors
So the hack for "I'm to lazy to decode the resistor" is "I throw it away and buy one where it's written readably"?
Sure lazy person scrolling on shorts all day
Whats the hack?
Bad boys run over yellow gardenias behind victory garden walls!
Haven't seen that mnemonic for over 30 years! Thanks for the memory 🤓
Very nice
if you see this blue resistor. throw it away, unless you want to waste your time figuring out the value, blue resistors are to read without enough white light , yellow look green, brown look black and red look like brown or violet sometime
It's great for first day, but like you should't write notes on piano keys, i would recommend you learn the colors of common used resistors like 220, 1k and 10k
This isn't a hack this is a product placement.
Lmfao a pitch to sell a product without solving the initial issue.
Really enjoy this as much information as possible please give in cave man terms
I have no idea what any of these things are but I watch anyway knowing one day I will
Applied mathematics in action.
That's if you don't know collor codes and have to look them up... if you do, and work with it all the time all it takes is 1 glance to know the resistance.
That’s really good
the best "hack" I know is to simply use old school 5% quarter watt resistors whenever possible. Much easier to "sight read" than the blue 1% jobs.
Color dots at rows 1-9 on a breadboard could easily remind the code.
resistor color codes with a blue background are so much harder to read than a brown background
How is this a hack? Those components were even designed for this purpose! "Life hack: Use things for their designed purpose." Come on ...
For me the bigger benefit seem to be solid legs. Bare resistors, capacitors and transistors have flimsy legs tha give poor contacts and tend to break after a few uses.
Those are fantastic.
The color stripes are there so you can just "read-it". Color codes aren't that difficult to learn.
Nah with normal resistors you can cover any gap but with this it's rather fixed so you'll end up needing nore jumpers and limitations.
Would Like to buy one
Honestly, if they fit in whatever project I'm working on, I'd just use these in place of the regular components. I have a hard time seeing the color codes on resistors and it's annoying to have to measure each one I pick up with a multimeter just to make sure I have the right one.
I keep the resistors I use for breadboarding organized by value group. Resistors < 1K ohm go into their own compartment; same with 1K - 9K9, 10K - 99k, 100K -999K, etc..
I'm just surprised that there isn't an app that just tell you the resistance if you point your phone camera at it.
useful in classroom demonstrations. good job
Whoa, game changer. Gonna get me some of that!
Would these be too easy for my 6 year old?
Just read the color code! It’s so simple. First band, 1st digit, 2nd band, 2nd digit, 3rd band how many zeros. Cmon people
I have looked everywhere can't find the bio to find the link.
Why is that a hack?
It's a manufactured product.
Or you could just do what most people do and use a multimeter to read the resistance. If you are doing anything electrical or electronic you should have a multimeter.
Ok, but this has actual breadboard pins. Folding the super thin resistor wires is a pain.
voltage divider, DMM, Read Color Code....all better learning tools then those and will tell you the resistance...
$20 for $2 worth of components...
This isn't a hack, it's just a product.
Cool!
Just use the colours, we where forced to learn them at school 😂
These should be useful - I can't see the colours on the resistors very well.
Isn't printing label and attaching more cheaper?
I wonder why they use color codes instead of literally just putting the numbers on them like capacitors. I'm sure theres a reason but as someone new to electronics it makes everything more confusing and slower to do projects because i have to either keep everything very organized or read it with a multimeter lol
I'm assuming early on it was just 1000 x faster and cheaper to paint in lines that print numbers. Just spin it while it's in contact with something to deposit your selected paint.
Nowadays? Idk if it would be as the same but it's established as the standard.
I know I'll never learn it, I just use it so infrequently, so for me these probably would be a great product. I just already have more resistors than I'll use in my lifetime and am super cheap when it comes to my non-primary interests.
✅ Multimeter
What, exactly, was the hack?