The 555 Timer is one of the oldest integrated circuits still available. It's also one of the few ICs you can buy at the mall! Its hardiness -- and the fact that you can drive a speaker directly from the output on pin 3 -- have made it a natural choice for electronic music experiments in noise since the seventies. The 555 Noisemusick kit utilizes two 555 timers.
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