In hardware projects, you often see resistors used alongside components like pushbuttons and transistors - Why? In this video, we explore this and also consider some possibilities this opens up!

0:00 Introduction
0:28 Floating Pins
1:36 Pull-Down Resistors
3:14 Pull-Up Resistors
4:47 Strong vs Weak Pull
5:41 Conclusion

Some more sources you may be interested in:
- https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pull-up-resistors/all
- https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/20740/why-are-pull-up-resistors-more-common-than-pull-down-resistors

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