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The 74HC164 Shift Register and your Arduino

Step 9Conclusion

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Over all this is a pretty handy little chip, and I am glad I scrapped it off of a old piece of electronics headed to the trash.

It can be used for other things besides display systems, but everyone likes lights and the instant feedback of seeing whats going on is extremely helpful for the visual thinkers like I.

Also please forgive my code, I have only had the arduino since bout the third week of October, and its been a pretty big crash course. But that's the great thing about the system, if you sit down and work with it, its full of neat features that make controlling the world with an 8 bit microcontroller quite easy to do.

As always questions and comments are most welcome, and thanks for reading, I hope you learned a lot

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5 comments
May 6, 2012. 6:25 PMyapadqoi says:
Clear!
Thx.
May 23, 2011. 10:34 AMsyntar69 says:
This is a fantastic guide!

I've been looking for something written like this for a while.
I now have a fully working 4x4 led matrix, that I've built myself, and got to show the patterns I want.

This is all thanks to you.


Cheers,

Mikey C
Apr 2, 2011. 11:02 AMTheBurf says:
Great instructable, clear, easy to follow, helped alot
Jun 24, 2010. 4:23 PMmatt byrne says:
Great write up, very useful.
Jan 18, 2010. 1:07 AMn3r0 says:
 Great instructable! You gave the best explanation of shift registers that I have heard so far.

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