LED strip dimmer (circa 2019) uses a 555 timer, because what else would you use? This year is the 50th anniversary of the original design. Back in 1971 [Hans Camenzind] combined 23 transistors ...

it’s easy to point to instances where one could have just used a simple timer chip instead. Definitely not in the meme category, though, is this overkill vacuum tube 555 timer. It comes to us ...