Reliable 555 timer doesn’t falsely trigger Powering the timer from a NOR gate keeps it unpowered until needed. Power an LED driver using off-the-shelf components Drive LEDs with a 555 timer and two ...

Paul Rako, Creative Director, Rako Studios. Back in 2011, Jeff Hamilton contacted Bob Pease, asking for Bob’s experience with the classic 555 timer IC.Jeff wrote Pease, “As part of celebrating ...

If you’re not familiar with the 555 timer, suffice it to say that this versatile integrated circuit is probably the most successful ever designed, and has been used in countless designs, many… ...

Chris Gammell from the blog The amp hour and Analog Life is running a 555 timer IC design contest.EDN’s Mike Demler wrote it up on his blog yesterday.So Mike or Chris asked me to do a mention on ...

In the mean time, the 555 became the base IC for many designs in the 1970s and 1980s. Too bad he was not able to collect a royalty on each of the billions of chips sold. Amazingly, the 555 timer ...

555-timer Charges Lead Acid Batteries. 16 Comments . by: Mike Szczys. February 14, 2013. Title: ... But it gets the job done with a readily available IC and no need to code for a microcontroller.

The 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit (chip) which is used in a variety of timer, delay, pulse generation, and oscillator applications. 555 Signals and Pinout (8 pin DIP) Figure below shows ...