8x8 bi colour display with 74HC595N

that’s great fungus.

really well explained. I get it now. thank you.

I actually have 6 SRs, is it fair to presume wiring them up in parallel, rather than physically piggy backing will have the same effect?

I have not decided for sure what i want to do with this display to be honest, so if i write into my sketch that no more than three* LEDs a row/column can be lit up, it effectively protects the hardware? This wouldn’t be a problem if I were to write a pong sketch (with a paddle of 3 pixels max)

*i will look up the data sheet for the display