[Emily] then stepped up the difficulty for her follow-up project. It started with a sound synthesizer circuit built around a pair of 555 timers, popularized in the 1980s and nicknamed the Atari ...

If you’re not familiar with the 555 timer, suffice it to say that this versatile integrated circuit is probably ... or just want a fun weekend project. In my case, I came up with what is ...

Chris Gammell from the blog The amp hour and Analog Life is running a 555 timer IC design contest. EDN’s Mike Demler wrote ... I felt quite foolish when Chris wrote back explaining this was really a ...

555 timers may be over 50 years old, but they’re still driving the latest electronics to hit the market and will continue in the next-gen devices on the horizon. Read about the secret life of ...

In this design, a classic 555 timer IC consumes zero current in its quiescent mode and wakes up quickly in a known state. Build your own signal-conditioning modules to provide the amount of voltage, ...