Confuses me that anybody would downvote you for this. I’ve made makeshift capacitors out of rolled aluminum foil. It’s dumb, but it worked for what I wanted (triggering a trackpad via stepper motors for testing microcontroller code.) Plus I just wanted to see if it even worked. Life = science experiments.
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.
I admire it but also…wtf lol
I made a potentiometer with paper and graphite clay once
Confuses me that anybody would downvote you for this. I’ve made makeshift capacitors out of rolled aluminum foil. It’s dumb, but it worked for what I wanted (triggering a trackpad via stepper motors for testing microcontroller code.) Plus I just wanted to see if it even worked. Life = science experiments.
That’s cool, could you share some photos? The theramin I mean
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.