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Re:555 timer teardown: inside the most popular IC (2016) by JKCalhoun on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:50AM (#23428487)
Takes me back...

As a hobbyist, I loved Forrest Mim's mini-notebooks you could purchase from Rat Shack:

https://archive.org/details/electronics_-_Forrest_Mims-engin...

Re:555 timer teardown: inside the most popular IC (2016) by kjs3 on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:14PM (#23435495)
I learned so much from those Mim's books. When I was a EE undergrad I could take the theory and look at how a real engineer did things and often go "oh...I see".
Re:555 timer teardown: inside the most popular IC (2016) by kiddico on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:20AM (#23429543)
This is fantastic. Thanks for the link!