This is a truly hands-on approach to learning. [Kevin Darrah] ditched the microcontroller and is using push buttons to learn about 595 shift registers. The test rig uses two of the serial-in, parallel ...

Shift registers are some of the most active chips in a computer. Although their basic function is to hold and transfer data, it must do that job flawlessly. Even one ...

Shift registers can help reduce size and BOM in designs that use LEDs. By providing I/O expansion, they enable the use of smaller, less expensive microcontrollers. In some cases, the shift register ...

[Kevin Darrah] recently went out to dinner at a restaurant that was using some cheap LED candles (yuck) instead of the real thing. And in the true spirit of a hacker, he started to notice the patterns ...

Shift-out: again? Yes, shift-out registers again, now daisy-chained! But let me write down a short foreword. As probably occurs for most of the subjects, especially those related to the Arduino board, ...

A register is a number of internal relays grouped together, normally 8, 16 or 32. Each internal relay is either effectively open or closed, these states being designated as 0 and 1. The term bit is ...