#electronics basics

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — July 3, 2026 — 12:30 p.m. If resistors are the traffic controllers of electronics, capacitors are the storage tanks. They are one of the most common electronic components ever invented, and one of the first components that seems almost magical when you encounter it. After all, how do you store…

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 19, 2026 — 12:30 p.m. Last week we asked a simple question: What is electricity? This week we move on to the first component in our Electronic Archaeology toolbox. The resistor. If electricity is the flow of charge through a circuit, a resistor is the component that gets in the way. That may not…

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 12, 2026 — 12:30 p.m. Before we can talk about vacuum tubes, radios, transmitters, antennas, or any imagined attempt to rebuild a tricorder from old technology, we have to start with the force underneath all of it. Electricity. That sounds simple enough. Everybody uses electricity. We plug in phones.…

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