The 555 chips take up an unnecessarily large area on the PCB (even though these are small ... where [Tim] will leave this idea. The 555 timer is a surprisingly versatile chip, and this project ...

Definitely not in the meme category, though, is this overkill vacuum tube 555 timer. It comes to us via ... [David] built a large PCB to hold the 18 vacuum tubes and the handful of resistors ...