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17 years ago
-- You don\'t know what the fuck you\'re talking about. One second isn\'t a long time for a 555, regardless of what your uninformed ass may have read, and hooking them up is extremely easy. Even you would probably have no problem getting one to work. As far as cheap goes, NE555D\'s are 16 cents apiece from Mouser, then there are two resistors and a cap for the astable and one resistor and a cap for the one-shot, for a total of something close to 50 cents. That\'s cheap, and you don\'t have to write code or buy a programmer to get the thing to work, either. Turns out _you\'re_ the asshole, eh?