{"id":2961,"date":"2021-12-29T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/29\/my-kind-of-chip-a-homebrew-discrete-555-timer-built-on-wooden-boards-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:05","slug":"my-kind-of-chip-a-homebrew-discrete-555-timer-built-on-wooden-boards-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/29\/my-kind-of-chip-a-homebrew-discrete-555-timer-built-on-wooden-boards-video\/","title":{"rendered":"My Kind of Chip:  A Homebrew Discrete 555 Timer Built on Wooden Boards (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GDjzL_fKQDE?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>This is really beautiful. Radraksha Vegad (Pargrahi) from India built a discrete component version of the venerable 555 timer chip. He built it on wooden blocks. This leads to the kind of understanding that even Jean Shepherd would have admired. No longer is the 555 a little mysterious black box. No, Pargrahi shows us how it works. <br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> I know we could do something similar with the NE602 or the LM386. But probably not with an Arduino microcontroller or an Si5351. And that says something about understanding and complexity. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks Radraksha. And thanks to Hack-A-Day for alerting us to this:<a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/12\/20\/all-hail-your-new-giant-555-timer-overlord\/#more-512230\"> https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/12\/20\/all-hail-your-new-giant-555-timer-overlord\/#more-512230 <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really beautiful. Radraksha Vegad (Pargrahi) from India built a discrete component version of the venerable 555 timer chip. He built it on wooden blocks. This leads to the kind of understanding that even Jean Shepherd would have admired. No longer is the 555 a little mysterious black box. No, Pargrahi shows us how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/29\/my-kind-of-chip-a-homebrew-discrete-555-timer-built-on-wooden-boards-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Kind of Chip:  A Homebrew Discrete 555 Timer Built on Wooden Boards (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,68,172,113,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-india","category-integrated-circuits","category-microcontrollers","category-si5351"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}