With a 555 on the BOM, you never know what you’re going to get. With 40 of the versatile timer chips in a build, you might just get something completely unexpected, like this 555-based eight-bit ...

It used to be common to use an SR latch to debounce an SPDT switch, but how does this actually work in the nanosecond time domain? Readers may remember that some time ago, I wrote an article on switch ...