This hack is a bit older, but one aspect of the setup makes it worth sharing. Shift registers are a common component to include in a project when you need to increase the number of I/O pins available.

[Debraj] wrote in about his 2-wire serial backpack he developed for a Graphic LCD screen. It’s build on a hunk of protoboard and uses a pair of 595 shift registers to translate incoming serial data to ...

The NPIC6C596 is a power logic 8-bit serial-in/serial or parallel-out shift register featuring open-drain outputs, storage register and low RDSON. It also features eight power EDNMOS transistor ...

The NPIC6C596A is a power logic 8-bit serial-in/serial or parallel-out shift register designed to have open-drain outputs that consist of 33 V/100 mA continuous current extended-drain NMOS transistors ...

A new technical paper titled “Toward Single-Cell Multiple-Strategy Processing Shift Register Powered by Phase-Change Memory Materials” was published by researchers at Singapore University of ...