it’s for resisting peer pressure
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Ohm my god good one
Got me really amped up
Watt are you talking about
Sure, it always just starts with "I'll just solder a few resistors here; what's the problem?", but before you know it your kid is gonna be out there giving acid baths to PCBs.
Ohh I thought they were pins and the kids was tailoring his clothes.
I thought it was some odd looking embroidery.
Found his kit, please help:
This is so overkill; all you need is a lighter and a spoon, and those contacts basically bond themselves
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Fuck! This is a 21st century vampire hunting kit!
The one time my mom sat me down and had a talk about the thermal compound syringe she found while cleaning...
I got some little baggies intended to hold stamps (as part of a magazine feature) and received a sit down talk about marijuana.
All this is a gateway drug to
5V-| | | |-3V3
GND-| | | |-IO16
IO12-| |_______| |-IO0
IO13-| |-GND
IO15-| |-VCC
IO14-| |-UDR
IO2-| ESP32-CAM |-UDT
IO4-|_______________|-GND
I think they call it a micro controller because it gets inside your brain and controls you!!!
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Heroine like the wonder woman? GO SON! I'd do her too
And for becoming a heroine, he would need transistors instead
Is that a reference to interest in electronics being a gateway drug to gender transition?
Connect LGBTQ+ to LGBTQ-
When I first started setting lgbt I was wondering why everyone was interested in insulated gate bipolar transistors.
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gonna need a 4kOhm resistor to do a pull down for that. You'll be Queer, but you won't be happy about it.
My relatives (I lived with them for a few years) found my leftover pipettes and stirring rods from my chemistry classes in my room and they genuinely thought I was doing drugs. One of them harassed me over it and another told me that she's always open if I need to talk about it. But whenever I try explaining that it's for school she brushes me off lmao
Next thing you know your room is at perfect temperature all year round with just a few lines of micro python and he keeps a pocket scope under his pillow.
Worse, he is "soldering"
I guess she encountered a lot of resistance from all those!
Yes, he is. But these are just resistors.
Gonna be a bit hard to push heroin through those. Lotta resistsnce.
Not ragging on anyone for ignorance, never will, but it's a little weird how many people are asking what these are, especially in such a nerdy community.
You're not gonna believe this, but most chemists never touch electronics. "Nerdy" is a really, really, really wide category.
You can be a nerd about anything. A language nerd who speaks 20 languages and studies ancient Akkadian for fun won't know what those are.
I mean I am a nerd, but I haven't much of a clue about trees and plant life.
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I found two posts in this entire thread asking what these actually are. That's not a whole lot.
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Resistance is futile
Agreed. Super annoying when people ask questions without a question mark.
What is it actually?
Electronic parts. Resistors. Probably about 66 ohms resistance looking at the color bands.
A better copy reveals a yellowish color on top. Therefore, I lean towards 470 Ω, which is a way more common value.
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This guy resists.
Here's a circuit board with resistors installed. They're used by hobbyists to make their own boards.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CznnpTiCZuk
However, even for hobbyists, surface mount versions are now common:
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It's a pack of resistors. Electrical resistors for building electronic circuits.
Worse, he's picked up a nasty through-hole habit.
Can't really tell for sure from the picture but it looks like the purest shit (at worse 5%, possibly even 2%) rather than the run of the mill 10% stuff.
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