I saw this on slashdot - great idea. But I can't figure out why you've wired up the 555 in such a truly odd way.
Normally, you'd use pin 1 and pin 8 for 0V and +6V respectively. Pin 3 is an output pin, and pin 4 is the reset. Have you done this rather unorthodox thing (powering the chip from an output and a reset line!) by accident, or is it a very clever hack?
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I saw this on slashdot - great idea. But I can't figure out why you've wired up the 555 in such a truly odd way.
Normally, you'd use pin 1 and pin 8 for 0V and +6V respectively. Pin 3 is an output pin, and pin 4 is the reset. Have you done this rather unorthodox thing (powering the chip from an output and a reset line!) by accident, or is it a very clever hack?