Jorge Ramírezbryan costanichAdrian Stevens
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Expanding IO Ports of a Netduino with a 74HC595

Running out of ports on your Netduino? Learn how to use a 74HC595 IO Expander to connect more things using Netduino. Foundation.

BeginnerFull instructions provided1 hour1,367

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Netduino
Wilderness Labs Netduino
×1
SparkFun Shift Register 8-Bit 74HC595
×1
LED (generic)
LED (generic)
×8
Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
×1
Resistor 220 ohm
Resistor 220 ohm
×8

Software apps and online services

Visual Studio 2015
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

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Schematics

Project diagram

Connections of the 74HC595 IO Expander with the Netduino and 8 LEDs connected to all the output ports.

Code

Complete Project Sample

Look for the Blinky_x74595 folder to get the entire solution

Credits

Jorge Ramírez

Jorge Ramírez

74 projects • 73 followers
Developer advocate for Wilderness Labs.
bryan costanich

bryan costanich

70 projects • 53 followers
Adrian Stevens

Adrian Stevens

70 projects • 43 followers

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