Category: Building Block Circuits
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The Astable Multivibrator
One of the first circuits I ever build on a breadboard was the ubiquitous astable multivibrator. Two NPN transistors, two capacitors, two LEDs and four resistors. It’s a circuit that just about every electronics engineering student and hobbyist builds at some point in their life. Sure, a 555 in astable mode uses fewer components, and…