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 ...

The PMC424 combines 40 I/O lines for TTL and differential signals with four 16-bit counter/timers and the PMC464 provides 64 TTL I/O lines plus four 16-bit timer/counters whose TTL- compatible ...

As workhorse testbench instruments go, frequency counters/timers are right up there with the most frequently used pieces of gear. They see application in a very broad range of design/debug ...

Self-contained machines such as fryers for fast-food restaurants, cook-and-hold ovens, and bakery equipment usually employ a simple automatic controller. A typical controller includes one or more ...

For one of my hobby projects, I needed to add a small countdown timer at an affordable cost. Fortunately, a DigiSpark Attiny85 development board was lying around on my workbench. The next component ...

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to discuss a cheap type of useful digital rotation per minute counter (Digital RPM Counter). The 4-Digit LED Display RPM comes with a magnetic proximity sensor switch.

A 19-year-old has created a watch to help students taking college entrance exams Sept. 28, 2012 — -- Three years ago Jordan Liss was sweating it out, racing against the clock as he took the ACT ...

Amazon’s Alexa, the artificially intelligent voice assistant with thousands of apps and skills, cannot do everything. It is not particularly good at understanding natural language — that is to say, ...