alt Hacker NewsAs an electronics experimenter I would have to say the REAL eternal chip is the 555 introduced in 1972. It's become a bit of a meme: You could have used a 555 for that!
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fhdkweig • yesterday at 4:16 PM
You can even make a rug out of it. https://www.righto.com/2025/09/marilou-schultz-navajo-555-we...
geomark • yesterday at 10:01 AM
Yep. Just used a 555 today to whip up a low frequency clock source.
iberator • yesterday at 7:28 AM
Highly agree
It's become a bit of a meme: You could have used a 555 for that!
Unfortunately, those days seem to be gone. Now any time I see someone point out "you could just use a 555 for that", people are replying "I just threw an PIC/AVR/STM32/RPi in there instead...software is so much better than having to do math to calculate those R and C values".