With a 555 on the BOM, you never know what you’re going to get. With 40 of the versatile timer chips in a build, you might just get something completely unexpected, like this 555-based eight-bit ...

The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest judges are in hot water because they couldn’t ketchup to Joey Chestnut. Chestnut obliterated the competition on Wednesday, like he does every year, but his final ...

Oh, well now it’s clear! Manhattan’s inscrutable Metronome digital clock — which for decades has confounded Union Square passersby uncertain of what it’s actually measuring — now tracks the amount of ...