May 2016

There exists little practical information assisting with the experimentation of '595 shift registers.  This article and below Arduino sketch aim to address this vacuum.  The sketch simulates one or more (chained) 595 shift registers on the serial monitor while simultaneously driving the IC or ICs via the Arduino's pins.  This allows concurrent theoretical and practical experimentation with the 74HC595 first-in-first-out (FIFO) shift register family.