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Comment by swed420

1 day ago

I recently dug one out to use as a hardware shutdown timer to power off an rpi's PSU once it has presumably halted without having to resort to a dedicated MCU for the task.

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myself248  3 hours ago

My favorite 555 use was as a one-shot to power off a NIC after using its wake-on-LAN signal to reset a hung motherboard:

https://www.i3detroit.org/reset-on-lan-an-ethernet-aware-rem...

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