@tymkrs MorePi Me v1 Pi shift register board

[EDIT] This product is now available on Tindie.

Normal if I’m doing a scratch ‘n sniff on a product I bought it myself because it was something I was interested in adding to a project. Truth be told I got this one for free; I won this board off a contest on twitter. So I don’t have any projects this thing is running on or slated for but I can tell if I need something with a bunch of IO, like perhaps a display this will be the board I use. I have a project list and nothing really fits, but that future project list is always growing and shrinking. If you’re curious I have 38 projects on the list in progress or to-be-started 😀 I have a spreadsheet to manage them all on google drive or I’m sure I’d forget half of them. Sorry, I know blah blah… back to what you’re here for…

 

The MorePi Me
The MorePi Me

I unpacked the board and soldered it all together. Not a lot to say about it because it’s just a board, four DIP sockets/74HC595’s a couple connectors and 3 resistors. I like that they included sockets; I would have added them myself but sockets is a must on hobbyist boards!

whixr also send me some test code … happy day.

So I hooked this up and dropped code into it last week.. I left it to burn in all week.. and checked it out today; no problems. I put the Pi on bench and hooked up my logic analyzer … works as advertised. Look at the screenshot of the output for how whixr code works. I’ll also include a copy.

I don’t know when they plan on releasing this product but I’m sure it’ll be on their Tindie store page sooner than later. I also know that tymkrs wouldn’t mind donations for their educational work

I could only find one insignificant thing I didn’t like; there is a little ringing on the output of the 74HC595’s.. I did my due-diligence to ensure this wasn’t a false measurement. No biggie, a little load killed the ringing…

I say kudos to the tymkrs for this great product!

 

The output of whixr's sample code on the MorePi Me v1
The output of whixr’s sample code on the MorePi Me v1

the code!



# MorePi Me v1 Demo by @tymkrs

def update():
for index in range(0, 32):
if state[32 - index]:
GPIO.output(DataPin, GPIO.HIGH)
else:
GPIO.output(DataPin, GPIO.LOW)
GPIO.output(ClockPin, GPIO.HIGH)
GPIO.output(ClockPin, GPIO.LOW)
GPIO.output(LatchPin, GPIO.HIGH)
GPIO.output(LatchPin, GPIO.LOW)

def clear():
for index in range(0, 32):
state[index] = False

state = [False for index in range(33)]

LatchPin = 11
ClockPin = 13
DataPin = 15

import time
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

GPIO.setwarnings(False)

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)

GPIO.setup(LatchPin, GPIO.OUT) #latch
GPIO.setup(ClockPin, GPIO.OUT) #clock
GPIO.setup(DataPin, GPIO.OUT) #data

while True:
for n in range(0, 8):
clear()
state[n + 1] = True
update()
time.sleep(.03)
for n in range(0, 8):
clear()
state[8 - n] = True
update()
time.sleep(.03)

Author: Chas

I don't know why I blog, because? I have no agenda, just love electronics and want to share. I love to follow other experimenters/hardware hackers just to see what other people are working on. Shoot me a message if you blog.

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