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Did you accidentally hook up your IC in the wrong way ? wanna find if it still works? well this is where the below circuit comes in handy , this is an astable multivibrator circuit , If your “Test” IC is alive then the led blinks in an alternate fashion.

Working:
” Astable mode ” means that that none of the generated states is stable , ie the out is a varying square wave , the width of the positive and negative pulse can be set by changing the values of R1 and R2 . When the IC is working , a square wave is produced , when the state is high , The LED2 glows and when the output goes low the LED1 glows.

Note :One can use a IC555 timer software for designing circuits .

Here is the video :

The above circuit will produce a police siren effect . Actually I found this circuit online long back(don’t remember the source) and made some changes .
Working :
Both the 555’s are wired to work in astable mode . The first IC555 produces low frequency square waves which is then given to the ” Control ” pin of the second IC, thus when the voltage at this pin we can vary the time electronically which in turn changes the frequency of the output . The output of the second IC555 is given to a capacitor , the capacitor turns the square wave to a triangular wave output (nearly triangular) , this when given to the speaker a “eaeee-uhnnnn” effect .
Notes:
You can change the out put sound (length and so) by changing the output capacitor, ie C3

Note :
The circuit was already available on the net (This is an edited version)

Here is a video