EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
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#25:55 video released on May 5th, as per description :)
For something feeling like a fairly specific IC, I remember seeing many projects that use it throughout the years in wacky ways - and seeing it makes me happy to know that the sentiment for this little piece is shared.
Re: EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
#3also today's date is 5.5. and the video is 5m55s
Re: EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
#4Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.
Re: EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
#5Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.
I also remember being amazed, and did a forehead slap, when an old army bomb disposal man explained how, what I thought was an innocent device, was used by the IRA in bombs.
Re: EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
#6Built an atari punk console using these with my late father. Still have it hanging on my wall in a shadow box.
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#7and this is the fifth comment
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#8killer oneshot, laughed hard..
Re: EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
#9Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.
I also remember being amazed, and did a forehead slap, when an old army bomb disposal man explained how, what I thought was an innocent device, was used by the IRA in bombs.
Ha. When I was a teenager I used to build 555s into timers for the same purpose using a no PCB rats nest construction.
Though surprising the family at dinner with a small explosion was a much more innocent purpose.
Re: EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
#10Time to slow it down to lower frequencies and give it more frequent checkups.