Electronics designers/tinkers: fancy a competion?

[dnar]

Hackaday announced this comp a few weeks ago, I am thinking of entering myself.

The prizes are pretty cool, should be fun!

Simply design a project around an LM555 timer or timers.

http://www.555contest.com/

I had thought of using an LM555 as the basis for a self oscillating Class-D audio amplifier. I had the basic design in my head and when I searched for prior works someone has already done this! Bugger! Back to the drawing board...

[Doc]

Hackaday announced this comp a few weeks ago, I am thinking of entering myself.

The prizes are pretty cool, should be fun!

Simply design a project around an LM555 timer or timers.

http://www.555contest.com/

I had thought of using an LM555 as the basis for a self oscillating Class-D audio amplifier. I had the basic design in my head and when I searched for prior works someone has already done this! Bugger! Back to the drawing board...

A labour saving device for women; something that shocks your balls at exactly 3 minute intervals to save them from having to break them?

[LaNeK779]

the more i read (not particularly this topic, just a general feeling) the more i believe that you two guys should meet someday...

[DanBarlow]

I had the basic design in my head and when I searched for prior works someone has already done this! Bugger! Back to the drawing board...

Yes the 555 has been ... done. By many many people much much smarter than me.
I shall now go sit in a corner and eat worms.

[dnar]

I have a few ideas still. Looking for an idea to enter in the Art category, I plan to build discrete 555's.

[mixedgas]

Steve reaches for his ancient copy of the TAB Books 555 Timer Applications Handbook, ~125 PAGES of 555 timer stuff, complete with binding covered in black electrical tape fro wear and tear.... Easy win....



Steve

[Doc]

Incorporate an ambient temp sensor and a product selector knob for an epoxy warning timer.

[dnar]

I have to say, with the competition closing in just days, I am out of the competition. Too many other projects on the go not to mention work and a sick wife.

Check this out, an analog composite video game with just 23 LM555's.

http://kaput.retroarchive.org/555game/

Genius!

[norty303]

Too many other projects on the go not to mention work and a sick wife

Perhaps what you really need is to devote some time to creating a 555 device that can help allocate your time between said projects and nursing sick wife (assuming you didn't just mean she has a colourful vocabulary and/or 'interesting' habits...)

[dnar]

I need more than a 555 timer to do that! My problem is that my working day spans GMT+11 to GMT+1. At the moment I am in the office from 5am to 10pm... Shits me.

It appears I would not have been the only submitting a discrete LM555 project...

http://www.ohmpie.com/hm555/