Learn how to control 8 LED's with 74HC595 IC

Other Hardware LEDs and Multiplexing
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Hi guys this was first tutorial, I've just started a few months ago learning electronics (previously I've just knew how to program in C and Python). When I finished this project (took me about 5 hours or something) I've decided to share to help anyone that is starting in electronics.

What’s this project about?
Basically we have an Ultrasonic sensor that measures the distance and the LED’s bar graph will light up according to our distance from the sensor and as we get closer the buzzer beeps in a different way.
I think that it's a good project to learn how 8 bit shift registers work! (74HC595 IC in this case)

Check out the YouTube video and my website for all the information !

Thanks!

If you have any questions or suggestions, leave a comment!

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Post the code

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The code is on instructables... but I will post here too :slight_smile:

int tonePin = 4; //Tone - Red Jumper
int trigPin = 9; //Trig - violet Jumper
int echoPin = 10; //Echo - yellow Jumper
int clockPin = 11; //IC Pin 11 - white Jumper
int latchPin = 12; //IC Pin 12 - Blue Jumper
int dataPin = 13; //IC Pin 14 - Green Jumper

byte possible_patterns[9] = {
B00000000,
B00000001,
B00000011,
B00000111,
B00001111,
B00011111,
B00111111,
B01111111,
B11111111,
};
int proximity=0;
int duration;
int distance;

void setup() {
//Serial Port
Serial.begin (9600);

pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(echoPin, INPUT);
pinMode(clockPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(latchPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(dataPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(tonePin, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
digitalWrite(latchPin, LOW);
digitalWrite(trigPin, HIGH);
delayMicroseconds(1000);
digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
duration = pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH);
distance = (duration/2) / 29.1;

/if (distance >= 45 || distance <= 0){
Serial.println("Out of range");
}
else {
Serial.print(distance);
Serial.println(" cm");
}/

proximity=map(distance, 0, 45, 8, 0);
//Serial.println(proximity);

if (proximity <= 0){
proximity=0;
}
else if (proximity >= 3 && proximity <= 4){
tone(tonePin, 200000, 200);
}
else if (proximity >= 5 && proximity <= 6){
tone(tonePin,5000, 200);
}
else if (proximity >= 7 && proximity <= 8){
tone(tonePin, 1000, 200);
}
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, MSBFIRST, possible_patterns[proximity]);
digitalWrite(latchPin, HIGH);

delay(600);
noTone(tonePin);
}

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