Re: Re: TI-H: Hey everyone!
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Re: Re: TI-H: Hey everyone!
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>The last time I looked at the light flasher, it appeared that it might be
>possible to chain more chips for more ports! It would be interesting to be
>able to run more LEDs or a couple 7 segment displays.
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>I know Mel Tsai's original design for the expander used a series of shift
>registers that both read and wrote data. Modify this and it might be possible
>to have 32 lines! Well, it's been a while since I saw it. Anyway, it's simple
>to build. basic logic. a simple counter. and it could be done to work bidirectionaly!
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>That means you could have it read data from other devices. Otherwise, if
>you're lazy hardware wise, and are willing to make an I2C driver, then you
>could use the 8-bit I2C paralel interface chip. add a couple for more lines.
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Thanks Rich, I'll look into that.
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