Archive for February, 2011

How to turn a 555 into a voltage follower

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Update: For my non-engineer friends, a 555 is a “timer” chip that turns on and off. You can program how fast it turns on and off with a few resistors and a capacitor. I figured out how to make it turn… half on and half off at the same time. I did this by putting [...]