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Electronics 201: Pull-Up and Pull-Down Resistors
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Recommended as an eleven minute explainer on pull-up and pull-down resistors, though one viewer felt the usual framing still leaves the concept hard to grasp.
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Also, here is another person making the exact same case I am making here, for why "pull up resistors" are explained in a way that makes it hard to understand,.
LearningBasicComputerScience on electronics.stackexchange.com, Sept 2021. CC BY-SA.
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