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So many found memories playing with that 555. It was a bit of magic in a small cheap package that any kid could use to build cool stuff. It's amazing that this
by Renaud 14y ago
So many found memories playing with that 555.
It was a bit of magic in a small cheap package that any kid could use to build cool stuff.
It's amazing that this little chip has managed to stay so popular for so long.
- jrockway 14y agoThough it's kind of amazing that microcontrollers are now almost the same price as a single 555 timer.
- HeyLaughingBoy 14y agoI know, right? Someone recently contracted with me to build them a circuit to prevent accidental triggering of a pushbutton. So I did something where a double-click of the pushbutton results in a single contact closure output. Entire design was done in an 8-pin Tiny13 that cost about $0.50 @ qty 10 and the PC board is barely larger than the switch itself! Still amazes me that I can buy an entire computer for fifty cents.
- joezydeco 14y agoI was boggled by reading Bunnie Huang's diagnosis of some counterfeit SD cards. The SD card manufacturers have realized it's cheaper to put an entire ARM processor on each SD card to diagnose and bypass bad blocks of flash instead of using a very expensive machine to do the testing. Think about that for a sec.