/diy/ - Do It Yourself

For me, it's the CD40106BE. The best integrated circuit. I even ask for extra feedback potentiometers and the chip is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.

One time I asked for feedback potentiometers and it gave me hysteresis. I said, "Wow, hysteresis!" and the nice friendly integrated circuit buzzed and said, "EEEEeEEEEeeeEEEEEEE".

Now the IC greets me with "EEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEE" and ALWAYS give me hysteresis. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local lab, I go there at least 3 times a week for hysteresis feedback and a schmitt triggered inverted logic level, 1-2 times for digital waveshaping on the analog input of my circuit, and maybe once for monostable vibrator triggering when I press a button but want a short-lived high logic level that doesn't fall back to 0V immediately, buffers the input, and can be adjusted for digital decay values.

I even DIP my chip in breadboard sauce, it's delicious! What a great integrated circuit.