74HC595 for dummies

Sareno:
I respect your reply but please elaborate.

No they will not interrupt all the time because your software is in charge of if they interrupt or not. You have to enable a pin to generate an interrupt, so you can disable it in software when you don’t need it.

You will not loose 7 pins, you will use 7 pins.

Grumpy_Mike:
No they will not interrupt all the time because your software is in charge of if they interrupt or not. You have to enable a pin to generate an interrupt, so you can disable it in software when you don’t need it.

You will not loose 7 pins, you will use 7 pins.

Fair enough.