Hackaday (unofficial) December 31, 2021 1:00am CD Player Powered 555 Piano Goes Accordion To Plan #classichacks #555 #accordion #cdplayer #dvdplayer #generator #punk #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 CD Player Powered 555 Piano Goes Accordion To Plan Ah yes, the 555 piano project. Be it the Atari Punk Console, or some other 555 based synthesizer, Hackers just love to hear what the 555 can do when attached to a few passives and a speaker. ItR…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 20, 2021 10:00pm All Hail Your New Giant 555 Timer Overlord #classichacks #parts #555 #555timer #discretecomponents #replica #woodworking #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 All Hail Your New Giant 555 Timer Overlord You asked for it, and now you’ve got it. It’s taken more than a decade of accumulated complaining, but this gigantic 555 timer IC has finally gathered enough psychokinetic energy to tak…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 15, 2021 1:00pm You Can Always Use An ATtiny Instead Of A 555 #attinyhacks #555 #555timer #attiny85 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 You Can Always Use An ATtiny Instead Of A 555 It’s a constant of writing for Hackaday, that whenever a project appears using a 555 timer, someone will say “You could have used a microcontroller to do that!”. It’s someth…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 1, 2021 6:00pm The 555 Timer Contest Returns! #contests #hackadaycolumns #555 #555timercontest #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The 555 Timer Contest Returns! It’s back! The 555 timer contest wants to see you do something cool with the 555 timer chip. At stake is the adulation of electronics geeks everywhere. Three top winners will be awarded a $15…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 5, 2021 6:00am Kinetic Synth-Kebab Sculpture Plays Punk Sequentially #digitalaudiohacks #555 #555timer #ataripunkconsole #circuitsculpture #kineticsculpture #mechanicalsynthesizer #synth #synthesizer #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Kinetic Synth-Kebab Sculpture Plays Punk Sequentially What’s better than an Atari Punk Console synthesizer? How about four Atari Punk Console synthesizers. And what better way to present them but as brass wire art sculptures. We’d have for…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 25, 2021 6:00am Classic Chip Line-Up Powers This Fun Dub Siren Synth #musicalhacks #555 #741 #dub #echo #lm386 #oscillator #reverb #siren #synth #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Classic Chip Line-Up Powers This Fun Dub Siren Synth There’s a certain elite set of chips that fall into the “cold, dead hands” category, and they tend to be parts that have proven their worth over decades, not years. Chief among th…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 24, 2021 6:00am The Most Important Device In The Universe Is Powered By A 555 Timer #art #mischacks #555 #555timer #blinkenlights #movies #prop #sttng #startrek #tv #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Most Important Device In The Universe Is Powered By A 555 Timer The Hackaday comments section has become infamous for a recurring theme that goes something like “I don’t know why they used an Arduino, they could have done it with a 555 timer!”…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 9, 2021 4:00pm So You Can Solder Small SMD Devices. The Question is, Just How Small? #parts #008004 #555 #smd #soldering #solderingchallenge #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 So You Can Solder Small SMD Devices. The Question Is, Just How Small? A highlight of last year’s Hackaday Remoticon was a soldering competition that had teams from around the world came together online and did the well-known MakersBox SMD Challenge kit in which…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 11, 2021 9:00am Smallest Discrete Transistor 555 Timer #mischacks #555 #discretetransistors #hanscamenzind #recreation #reproduction #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Smallest Discrete Transistor 555 Timer Over at Tiny Transistor labs, [Robo] took it upon himself to reproduce the classic 555 timer in discrete transistor form. For bonus points, he also managed to put it in a package that’s the s…