With surface-mount components quickly becoming the norm, even for homebrew hardware, the resistor color-code can sometimes feel a bit old-hat. However, anybody who has ever tried to identify a random ...

Here’s a tip from a wizened engineer I’ve heard several times. If you’re poking around a circuit that has failed, look at the resistor color codes. Sometimes, if a resistor overheats, the color code ...

A maker shared an electronics project on Digikey that explains an automatic system for recognizing and organizing resistors using an Arduino Uno Q. Zach Hipps did the work and looked for methods to ...