hi,
does anyone have any tips, guides, schematics, or anything about using shift registers (such as the 74HC595) with the arduino board?
thanks,
matt
Hey Matt, I just ordered a 74HC595 today. Hopefully it will be here this weekend and I can get things working. I'll keep you posted.
-ff 
right on, thanks. i've kind of got it going, but i think there's something a bit off about the wiring. any info you can give would help a lot
i used a 595 shift register for controlling multiple LEDs. worked well, though, you should have no problem using a 595.
ok, i've got it working, but one of the shift register's outputs (pin 6) is on sometimes when it shouldn't be. the only time it's off for me is when all the other outputs are off too.
anyone know why this would be?
haesslich,
Do you have any schematics or souce code for the 74HC595? My controller and 595 hopefully will be here by the weekend but in the mean time it would be nice to look over!
Thanks
-ff
I'm not sure if anyone noticed (or maybe I am just late to the party) but here's a whole write up on using the 74HC595
I'm kinda ticked because I was having fun reversing other peoples code using different controllers. I guess it might be useful so here are the links I was using before I found the above.
http://www.basicmicro.com/downloads/docs/74hc595.pdf
-jamaal