• ulterno@programming.dev
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          2 days ago

          I asked for 5m for a science project. A coil of 190m was the minimum they sold.
          It wasn’t too expensive (not copper), so I went with it.

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            2 days ago

            That’s actually hilarious. What did you do with the leftover??

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              1 day ago

              I still keep it in a cardboard box full of other electronics related stuff, which includes my shitty soldering iron (which is shitty enough to have made me thought that I was bad at soldering, until I once put my hands on a Weller) and other pieces of out of dysfunctional electronics that I have hoarded, thinking that I might do something with them, someday.

              I gave this as a reply to your comment because it is in the same spirit.

              The iron and the wire are the most used components out of that box.

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            2 days ago

            Colors is a good way to do it! I’ve only had to label wire harnesses a couple times and i used sharpie tick marks on the wires themselves. It worked but was awkward and took time to find the one wire i needed.