This may be very unprofessional, but you are very likeable. While I am here, and since you answered my question about the LED’s, where should I go to buy PicMcu’s? Isn’t the 555 a ‘I’ hog? Oh no. This is one hour long. I’ll have to watch it in segments.
This may be very unprofessional, but you are very likeable. While I am here, and since you answered my question about the LED’s, where should I go to buy PicMcu’s?
Nice work.
Can you do this again but maybe with leds or something like that.
Cuz i totally missed this contest and i would have made something if i knew about it.
I was thinking for the painting that I’ll have a nude drawing of me done, clenching a hand full of 555 timers with lightning bolts coming out of my eyes as my robot minions move forward and crush society, making me the new overlord. The 4th of July will become international LSD day and we’ll all drop acid globally all at once.
Or something like that.
Thanks for putting in all the hard work Chris and Jeri!
@Flapjackbatter “Can you call a thing like? the potato obsolete ?”
The 555 is certainly not obsolete, as some are commenting. I do a lot of at home chemistry and opened one of my mantles recently to recover some bits of plastic that had fallen into it. Both the heater and electromagnetic stir coils were being run by 555′s. And this is a piece of gear used in Cambridge and other universities, with an RRP of around $1.5k.
It’s used because it’s a cheap, well known layout.
Thank you so much Jeri and Chris for running this wonderful content. Thanks to the Judges for their time (and picking one of my entries as a winner!), the Sponsors for putting up such great prizes (making it possible at all) and all the contestants. I got an enormous amount of pleasure out of watching everyone’s videos and reading their write-ups, awesome entries all! I would love to see some made into kits, I know I’ll be building a few of them myself either way.
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AmazGraz says:
May 3, 2011 at 8:02 am (UTC 0)
This may be very unprofessional, but you are very likeable. While I am here, and since you answered my question about the LED’s, where should I go to buy PicMcu’s? Isn’t the 555 a ‘I’ hog? Oh no. This is one hour long. I’ll have to watch it in segments.
AmazGraz says:
May 3, 2011 at 8:03 am (UTC 0)
This may be very unprofessional, but you are very likeable. While I am here, and since you answered my question about the LED’s, where should I go to buy PicMcu’s?
wizzra says:
May 3, 2011 at 8:54 am (UTC 0)
a 555 based calculator?! that’s soooooooooooooooooooo boring!
stefengullicksen says:
May 3, 2011 at 9:15 am (UTC 0)
ABS glue will “lock” the electrical tape and it will never get gummy and unwrap. You loose flexibility.
gnomencandle says:
May 3, 2011 at 9:35 am (UTC 0)
@roboanalogtom Congrats! Contact me on youtube and let me know.
TheUknewit says:
May 3, 2011 at 9:59 am (UTC 0)
Nice work.
Can you do this again but maybe with leds or something like that.
Cuz i totally missed this contest and i would have made something if i knew about it.
jeriellsworth says:
May 3, 2011 at 10:56 am (UTC 0)
@roboanalogtom I’d buy a print of that!
jimday666 says:
May 3, 2011 at 11:45 am (UTC 0)
@robot797 they are all on the 555contest site. just search for them. good luck.
AntiProtonBoy says:
May 3, 2011 at 11:57 am (UTC 0)
Nice work on the contest Chris/Jeri. I hope we see more of this in the future.
roboanalogtom says:
May 3, 2011 at 12:13 pm (UTC 0)
I was thinking for the painting that I’ll have a nude drawing of me done, clenching a hand full of 555 timers with lightning bolts coming out of my eyes as my robot minions move forward and crush society, making me the new overlord. The 4th of July will become international LSD day and we’ll all drop acid globally all at once.
Or something like that.
Thanks for putting in all the hard work Chris and Jeri!
definitionofis says:
May 3, 2011 at 12:57 pm (UTC 0)
That was fun. Thank-you.
pdp7pdp7 says:
May 3, 2011 at 1:51 pm (UTC 0)
Most excellent contest! Kudos to Chris, Jeri, the contestants, the judges & the sponsors!
Albinorama says:
May 3, 2011 at 2:23 pm (UTC 0)
@Arnthorg
thank you….you save 50mins to many
robot797 says:
May 3, 2011 at 3:00 pm (UTC 0)
@jimday666 oke i could do that
but were can i find them
i love absorbing new information
jimday666 says:
May 3, 2011 at 3:55 pm (UTC 0)
@robot797 well yes, kinda, but if you want to replicate one of them, you have to talk to the inventors.
dashxdr says:
May 3, 2011 at 3:57 pm (UTC 0)
This video needs to be edited down to the bare essence. As in, 5-10 minutes tops. Sorry if that offends anyone.
lexichronicle2 says:
May 3, 2011 at 4:04 pm (UTC 0)
@Flapjackbatter “Can you call a thing like? the potato obsolete ?”
The 555 is certainly not obsolete, as some are commenting. I do a lot of at home chemistry and opened one of my mantles recently to recover some bits of plastic that had fallen into it. Both the heater and electromagnetic stir coils were being run by 555′s. And this is a piece of gear used in Cambridge and other universities, with an RRP of around $1.5k.
It’s used because it’s a cheap, well known layout.
electrodacus says:
May 3, 2011 at 4:09 pm (UTC 0)
@Flapjackbatter
Yes I can but I’m not happy about this thing.
everyday234 says:
May 3, 2011 at 5:07 pm (UTC 0)
Thanks Jeri and Chris/nice
robot797 says:
May 3, 2011 at 5:55 pm (UTC 0)
are all the circuts online?
Arnthorg says:
May 3, 2011 at 6:39 pm (UTC 0)
51:50 contest winner
Flapjackbatter says:
May 3, 2011 at 6:50 pm (UTC 0)
@electrodacus
Can you call a thing like the potato obsolete ?
userjjb says:
May 3, 2011 at 7:09 pm (UTC 0)
Very enjoyable video, nice to see the culmination of the effort of everyone involved!
BarsMOnster says:
May 3, 2011 at 7:26 pm (UTC 0)
Awesome contest, but I am still working on my entry
At least I finally got how P and N mosfets + drivers work 
Thanks 
vk2zay says:
May 3, 2011 at 7:33 pm (UTC 0)
Thank you so much Jeri and Chris for running this wonderful content. Thanks to the Judges for their time (and picking one of my entries as a winner!), the Sponsors for putting up such great prizes (making it possible at all) and all the contestants. I got an enormous amount of pleasure out of watching everyone’s videos and reading their write-ups, awesome entries all! I would love to see some made into kits, I know I’ll be building a few of them myself either way.