Drive LEDs with a 555 timer and two transistors. 555 timer IC design contest– no strings Learn more about the 555 timer IC design contest. AM radio made with a 555 timer IC When my buddy told me he ...

The bipolar NE555 timer IC is widely used in inductorless dc-dc converters, most frequently in doubling and inverting converters. However, another very popular IC, the LM386 audio ...

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 ...

The 555 Design Contest shook a whole bunch of really creative circuits out of the trees, hence the 555-heavy content lately. While not technically part of the contest, [esalazar] wanted to know wha… ...

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 ...

It has become a bit of a running joke in the Hackaday community to suggest that a project could or should have been done with a 555 timer. [Tim] has rather taken this to heart with his latest Elect… ...

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 ...