The ultimate breadboard hack! 

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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 RU-vidrs do this these days

You smoke inside your cat? 😢

I think it’s useful for people like me who are shade blind and have difficulty with color differentiation

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

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?

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

also, DISLIKED!

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.

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.

Yes, Watts the Wattage??

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 RU-vid) 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.

You can use a simple multimeter. They are very useful for electronics projects. Here's a video how to check the resistance: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1bohzeqWW8I.html

@@tauskicombat I'm aware of that, I was just hoping for a cool project he built to plug in components with a display

Sure lazy person scrolling on shorts all day

Check out the "Products / Parts list" linked in my bio, just search for "breadboard"!

Haven't seen that mnemonic for over 30 years! Thanks for the memory 🤓

Just 6 of the colours of the rainbow (indigo is omitted).

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.

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.

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..