• @yucandu@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I used to make shunt resistors out of a pencil and a piece of paper. Rub pencil all over paper, cut strips to size of required resistance.

    EDIT: I mean megaohm resistors not shunt resistors. 20MOhm for DIY theramin.

    • @xthexder@l.sw0.com
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      33 months ago

      This is exactly how high precision resistors are calibrated. A laser is usually used to notch out bits of the resistor to tune it after it’s made.