Texas Instruments microcontroller

[Dreeass]

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.

[decep]

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.

[Dreeass]

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.