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I'm looking for #opinions from #electronics #hobbyists or professionals.
When I'm using a #solderless #breadboard to prototype circuits, resistors can be frustrating. If you just keep re-using the same well-worn ones that look like a pretzel, you have to leave the leads long for the unknown next place you want to use them, and you can accidentally short something else against the leads.
Over the years I've frequently thought "Someone must make #jumper wires with inline resistors so they're easy to reuse", but I've never seen them for sale. [1]
So I made a bunch. And wow, it's labour-intensive to make them well. That explains why no-one's selling them.
Would other people be interested in buying and using these? Anyone can make them, but a lot of people would rather use their limited #hobby time to make their projects, not make things they need to make their #projects.
I've reduced the amount of time to make them and will keep trying, but I would have to charge at least US $30 for a pack of ten. There are ways to reduce it further, but they require a significant investment in equipment, so I'd have to be selling quite a few.
I make them with good materials - silicone 26AWG #wire for flexibility, name-brand 1% metal film #resistors, total length 24cm.
Would anyone want these?
[1] Closest thing I've found is https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1438.html but they're rigid so you need to use an additional wire anyway if you're not connecting exactly that distance through clear space.
"#DeepSeek, and the #opensource #AIecosystem surrounding it, has rapidly evolved from a brief snapshot of technological brilliance into something much bigger—and much harder to stop. Tens of thousands of developers, from seasoned #researchers to passionate #hobbyists, are now working on enhancing, tuning, and extending these open source models in ways no centralized entity could manage alone."
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3960764/deepseeks-open-source-movement.html
→ Mistral, Europe’s biggest #AI #startup, is blowing hot
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/03/06/mistral-europes-biggest-ai-startup-is-blowing-hot
“[Mistral's] models […] are firmly middling. […] So #Mistral has tried to make its name by competing more obliquely. For instance, many of its models are #opensource: anyone may download and use them without explicit permission, for no charge. Others are released under the company’s own "research" #licence; commercial users must pay for them, #hobbyists and #hackers can fool around with them #freely.”
Just a brief #factoid to perhaps save other #electronics #hobbyists some time.
#BigClive frequently uses a particular type of crimp-contact-and-housing as a universal socket for LEDs and other leaded components. Not just any such connector will do; various #JST, "#Dupont", and others won't work, because they only grasp pins of one particular size and/or shape. If the lead is too big, it won't go in, and if it's too small, it won't stay in.
If you want to use these connectors - and note you can get the housings with more than 2 contacts, so you can use them for transistors or weirder things too - the magic search term is "KF2510".
The reason these work as universal sockets for leaded components is because the contact is a spring that pushes from only one side of the housing, pressing the inserted contact or lead against the far side of the housing, and therefore provides a friction fit for any size lead (within reason). Most crimp connectors instead have particular shapes for their contacts and will only "grab" something the right size and shape.
Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER Made from Manila Folders
https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523745
* 1:60 scale model of an Air India Boeing 777-300er, made entirely from manila folders
* traces beginnings to high school architecture class
* learned to use manila file folders to roughly model building ideas
Additionally! I should say - if you’d be welcoming to a rabble of #Miniatures & #MiniaturePainting #Hobbyists - this has been a wonderful bunch to moderate, I would highly recommend telling them to join your instance.
do you consume a lot of the media your creative hobby is? for example, do you musicians listen to a lot of music in your free time?
AMAZON BOOKS 1947 
#TBT
This was how we ordered books..
you know.. back in the day, eh?
#Designing version 3 of a water fountain and #fusion360 is having a very bad time with my use of repeated patterns, I'm going to have to move to better software soon but there so few offer options for #hobbyists . #3dprinting
3DS, Wii U eShop Shutdown Leaves Archivists In The Wind, Hobbyists Pick Up The Pieces
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/21/3ds-wii-u-eshop-shutdown-leaves-archivists-in-the-wind-hobbyists-pick-up-the-pieces/
#archivists #hobbyists #nintendo #shutdown #culture #history #eshop #wiiu #3ds #1
Raspberry Pi has a new plan
For hobbyists to explore Japan
For a low cost
A global shutter camera
Can be yours for fifty buck-a-man
#raspberrypi #camera #hobbyists #machinevision #limerick #poetry
Joining the #Mastodon #Fediverse reminds me a lot of my prior experiences 1. dabbling in #linux & #oss, and 2. exploring the early social web (#BBS, #geocities, #ICQ, #AIM, #blogger) circa late 1990
Roll your own ethos, lots of effort to get in, things don’t just work, pioneer mentality, lots of #hackers and #tinkerers and #hobbyists, small but passionate #community seeking connection.
Maybe won’t have mass appeal but perhaps that’s not the goal?
