{"id":9336,"date":"2006-12-02T00:45:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T00:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2006-12-02T00:45:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T00:45:25","slug":"how-to-remember-your-cathode-from-your-anode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9336","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Remember Your Cathode from Your Anode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/catpacitor.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> This adorable kitty pic from the Machine Project site reminded me of something in Dave Hrynkiw&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/JunkBots-Bugbots-Bots-Wheels-Technology\/dp\/0072226013\/sr=8-1\/qid=1165038169\/streettech-20\" target=\"new\">Junkbots&#8230;<\/a> book about how to remember the polarity of the cathode and anode sides of a diode. He said his Physics teacher used to say: &#8220;I fell very negative about cats.&#8221; (Cathode being the negative side.) <\/p>\n<p> (And yes, I know this particular cat is looking at a capacitor not a diode, so don&#8217;t send me mail.) <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This adorable kitty pic from the Machine Project site reminded me of something in Dave Hrynkiw&#8217;s Junkbots&#8230; book about how to remember the polarity of the cathode and anode sides of a diode. He said his Physics teacher used to say: &#8220;I fell very negative about cats.&#8221; (Cathode being the negative side.) (And yes, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How-To: Remember Your Cathode from Your Anode&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}