Recent content by dis12upt

^^^ exactly what I meant. Also the radio shack here and other stores dont really carry much in regards to these components. I live in northern Canada, so I will have to order some things off the net I suppose.

no they lay down, i think they are diodes?

Ok that makes sence, Im sorta new to this stuff. So I need to find a small low powered electronic device, would say an old MP3 player or discman work? I am using the color band system and found a nifty little calculator, but now having a hard time finding a 10 ohm resistor. Also one question...

So I'm just tinkering around looking at 4 old computers i have sitting around and decide i want to make a laser pointer. I have a few diodes from dvd burners already but I want to make a driver to protect them. I tried locally to get the diffrent parts needed on the many tutorials but no one...