Developing Perspectives
by Bryan Bergeron

Every electronics enthusiast and engineer is familiar with the fundamental passive circuit elements — resistors, capacitors, and inductors. With these elements, a source of power, and a few transistors, diodes, or other active elements, it’s possible to create just about every electronics device imaginable. Or perhaps not. What if our perception of what’s possible is limited by the nature of these basic elements? What could you create if you had additional elements to work with? Can you imagine a new element, and how it might be used in communications, computing, robotics, and entertainment?