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by aleph_minus_one 1181 days ago
> and watch your ass because an EE is about to arrive to drag you for not just using a 555 timer in your projects.

I know from an electrical engineer that with microcontrollers having become that cheap, it can often be cheaper to use a massively produced microcontroller instead of a 555 despite the former often being insanely overpowered for the task at hand.