School kids and hardware enthusiasts who want to start tinkering with Intel’s tiny Curie chip will be able to get their hands on it early next year in the form of an Arduino development board.

If you lost count, that’s ten 555 chips to make a single op amp! To test things out, [Peter] wired the circuit up as an inverting 10X amplifier.

This time, however, [Tim] decided to actually show how this can be done by removing some of the integrated circuits from an electronic dice and relying entirely on the 555 timer for his build.