To mark the recent passing of Hans Camenzind, we are running a 555 mini-retrospective this week. Today I’ve rounded up some of my personal favorite 555 content from our archives, arranged in arbitrary top 10 order. Many of these are “fun” or “meta” 555 type posts. We’ll be following on later in the week with more circuit-specific 555 coverage. Stay tuned!
LEDs are the future of lighting. Find out why in Sal Cangeloso’s new Maker Press book, LED Lighting – A Primer to Lighting the Future!
Inside the Gigeresque enclosure by Steve D of Mad Art Lab resides functioning radiation sensing equipment capable of sensing minute amounts of radioactive material.
This clever smartphone stand from Harry Allen elicits a double-take. It’s almost as if the smartphone is designed to fit within its grasp.
We were saddened to learn last week that Swiss-born engineer, Hans Camenzind, had died on August 8th. In honor of the life and work of Hans Camenzind, we’re declaring this 555 Week.
UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg and Ayorkor Korsah Asst. Professor of Computer Science at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana would like makers to participate in the African Robotics Network (AFRON) design challenge, which seeks to establish a new class of affordable robotics for the classroom. Existing platforms are often too expensive for students in Africa. […]
Recently, we’ve been brainstorming ideas for a breadboarding workshop to put on at Maker Faire and other events. Hoping to save participants the tedium of cutting and stripping their own jumper wires (and the cost of providing readymade jumpers) we hit on the idea of using staples. I first read about this hack on Instructables, awhile back, and was excited to find a chance to put it to use. Just one problem: it doesn’t work.
