1 How Shift Registers Work!
A clear explanation of how a 74HC595 shift register works and how to drive many LEDs from a few Arduino pins.
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A clear explanation of how a 74HC595 shift register works and how to drive many LEDs from a few Arduino pins.
Explains how a shift register can scan many buttons or inputs from a handful of Arduino pins, sometimes linked alongside the same creator's output video.
Often linked as a clear SparkFun explanation of how shift registers work and how they extend a microcontroller's pins for input and output.
A short clip of eight TPIC6B595 shift registers driving a large 12 V LED segment display, posted by the board's builder as a working example.
Ben Eater builds an Arduino Nano programmer for AT28C parallel EEPROMs, using shift registers for the address lines; people build it for their own projects.