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hello guys,
i am trying to make a shiftIn with a shift register, in which i connected 3 push buttons to the shift register and 3 Leds to the arduino
so i am trying to make this work but first can anyone please explain to me what does this function mean ?
byte shiftIn(int myDataPin, int myClockPin) {
int i;
int temp = 0;
int pinState;
byte myDataIn = 0;
pinMode(myClockPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(myDataPin, INPUT);
//we will be holding the clock pin high 8 times (0,..,7) at the
//end of each time through the for loop
//at the begining of each loop when we set the clock low, it will
//be doing the necessary low to high drop to cause the shift
//register's DataPin to change state based on the value
//of the next bit in its serial information flow.
//The register transmits the information about the pins from pin 7 to pin 0
//so that is why our function counts down
for (i=7; i>=0; i--)
{
digitalWrite(myClockPin, 0);
//delayMicroseconds(0.2);
temp = digitalRead(myDataPin);
if (temp) {
pinState = 1;
//set the bit to 0 no matter what
myDataIn = myDataIn | (1 << i);
}
else {
//turn it off -- only necessary for debuging
//print statement since myDataIn starts as 0
pinState = 0;
}
//Debuging print statements
//Serial.print(pinState);
//Serial.print(" ");
Serial.println (myDataIn, BIN);
digitalWrite(myClockPin, 1);
}
//debuging print statements whitespace
//Serial.println();
//Serial.println(myDataIn, BIN);
return myDataIn;
}
