Introduction to 555 Timers | Basic Circuits

555 timers are an incredibly popular IC that is useful for timers, switches, LED blinking, and more, using a simple analog circuit and no programming. In this introduction to 555 timers, we discuss the pinout and review the internal circuitry and logic, which both gives it its name and drives its behavior. We explain the different 555 timer configurations, such as the monostable, bistable, and astable configurations though we get into more depth on those particular circuits in later tutorials.

This video tutorial is based on the written tutorial that Jayesh created, so go check out the written portion that Jayesh did here: https://www.circuitbread.com/tutorial...

0:00 Introduction
0:41 What is a 555 timer?
2:38 Internal diagram of the 555 timer
4:04 The internal portions of the 555 timer
9:57 Why we care about the internals
10:57 Monostable, bistable, and astable configurations
13:15 Overview and summary
13:37 The toast will never pop up

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