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« on: May 12, 2013, 06:00:18 pm »
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I'm new here and am considering an Arduino Uno. But I have some microcontrollers lying around from TI. One of them is a SN74HC165N and I'd like to know whether I can use the Arduino and its IDE to program that microcontroller as you can with an ATTiny from Atmel. I saw a video from MAKE about it btw. The reason why is just because te Arduino looks so simple (to put programming on chips) and ofcourse this wonderful community.
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 06:16:00 pm »
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What you have is a shift register IC, not a microcontroller.  This could be used to add auxillery functionality to a microcontroller, such as additional digital inputs, but by itself is relatively useless.
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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2013, 01:17:16 am »
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Quote from: decep on May 12, 2013, 06:16:00 pm
What you have is a shift register IC, not a microcontroller.  This could be used to add auxillery functionality to a microcontroller, such as additional digital inputs, but by itself is relatively useless.
Thanks, luckily it was cheap.
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