How Shift Registers Work! 

As usual, a short youtube video puts hours of lectures and book material to shame. Thank you!

Shif Registers are no longer a mystery to me. Thanks, man.

best fucking video ive seen in my life. all other videos make it so confusing and this is so simple

One of the best tutorials I've seen for explaining SIPO (Serial In Parallel Out) shift registers. Thank you

Thanks for explaining it so well! ;)

this is the best explanation of shift registers of ALL TIME. Thanks man

You are literally the best, best explanation I have seen and understood so far. Thank You very much.

This was hands-down the best practical Shift Register explanation video I've found so far. Seriously, great video.

BEST TUTORIAL FOR SHIFT REGISTERS

u have an awesome way to explain things thanks a lot!

This is my... I don't know... Probably my twentieth times watching this video. Whenever I forgot how to use a shiftreg, I played this video over and over again.... Thank you for doing this video!

I have been having great trouble understanding what and how a shift register works until i saw this video. Now i understand better Thanks for putting these together.

Was searching the whole internet for an useful explanation. Found it here. Thanks man!

The best and most effective explanation of shift registers I have ever seen

That was the best explanation of shift registers ever!

The most practical and simplified explanation of shift registers I have seen, thank you for taking the time making this.

The fact that you implemented push buttons really helped me understand everything. You've own a new subscriber!

I watch this regularly as a refresher. This is the best info out there!

Probably the best video where shift registers are explained perfectly

Dear Kevin, recently I retired and, though not educated in electronics, I picked it as a hobby. Until recently I was a complete dummy and despite all other good articles one needs a teacher in front of the blackboard. My goal is to build the 8x8x8 RGB LED cube. But, as I have read, it may not work! So I needed some more understanding of all the different parts and all the acabadrabra. Thanks to your videos I have learned a lot. They Are Fabulous!! Give yourself a pad on the shoulder. Keep going brother.

I'm starting from mostly scratch with this foray into the realm of microcontrollers (it's been over 20 years since I got my Mech Engr degree). But it's so gratifying when you figure this stuff out. Makes me feel like a kid again. Thankfully I still have my day job! Looking forward to seeing more of you videos! Will stay in touch!

I signed up to your channel a week ago and I'm very glad. This video pulled the cloak off of shift registers for me. By setting it up and showing us how it's done manually goes a long way to understanding it. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it!

This is the first video that truly made me understand shift registers. Thanks!

Kevin you did a very good job with this. I already knew all about this shift register but that hasn't stopped me from watching your video repeatedly just to admire the awesome presentation. You nailed it.

Kevin you are providing a great service to mankind. This video demystifies many components of how computers fundamentally work.

Very good tutorial on using more than one shift register. Helped greatly to understand how multiple registers work together.

Thank you Kevin... i will say it is one of the best Tutorial done on Shift registers...Understood it...... just by watching the entire video once...

The first video that REALLY taught me. Using this helped me visualize exactly how to use these, whereas other videos showed me a lot of theory and not enough actual use or vice versa.

Finally, someone can actually explain what a shift register is in a simple understandable way, thank you. Btw subbed.

This was an amazing explanation. I've never really been able to get my head around how these actually work, but this video explained it perfectly. Now I can actually make something with shift registers! Thanks.

Thanks. That was one of the most practical explanations of how the shift register works. I have seen tutorials where they went into great detail about all the logic gates inside and where they have gone into great detail about the complex array of microcontroller instructions that one can use but your tutorial simply showed how the thing works. Thanks.

EXCELLENT video. You explained it in a way no one was able to explain it on any other video or forum I visited. It's actually quite simple. People tend to start by diving into applications right away without going over the basics. You went over the basics, and now it's for us to figure out the numerous applications! Thanks.

Thank you so much for this viedo. I did never understand a shift register during my high school and you managed to explain it so i can understand in 10 minutes!! Just amazing. I wish you all the best.

I've been confused about shift registers forever but this made so much sense! thanks heaps

This video is truly outstanding! It has made everything so clear. I don't think any other video could match this level of clarity. Thanks for sharing such an exceptional video!

Kev you are one of the Best Teacher on the Net, Thank you Boss!

The best video explanation of shift registers on RU-vid. Thank God I found it.

I have played with electronic projects for years just for fun during the long cold winters. I play with the Basic Stamp and A/D converters, temp sensors, easy things like that. I have always wanted to learn how to build and use the basic circuit building blocks that make up a real circuit. Over the years my interest in electronics has faded a 'bit' (see what I did there?). I had to buy an oscilloscope for work and was doing some research when I ran across your videos on the shift registers. You explain everything is such a way that it is easy to understand. I'm excited to watch more of your videos. Tonight's project is to dig out all of my electronic parts and get to work on your shift register project. I know I have some 595's just not sure why I ever bought them..... Thanks a zillion!!

One of the best videos on this subject, thank you

Absolutely brilliant, well explained and very easy to understand with all the pop up comments! Thank you for this tutorial.

Kevin, thank you for your time to make such a nice demo. I've just understand whole idea of SR. Thanks for including blank and clear pins that are often skipped in other tutorials.

Great video. I just discovered your channel. I love channels like this which don't dumb anything down or skim over a topic so quickly you don't learn anything of practical value like some channels out there. Your channel manages to keep its content very understandable while also being able to go into detail about the topic at hand.

Great stuff! Troubleshooting a device and suspect a hc595, which I've never used before, and your video saved me a ton of time. Couldn't have asked for a better explanation!

When you first demonstrated the shift register working, I thought "there's no way this is going to become clear to me in 10 minutes." And then now I'm sitting here thinking, "yeah, shift registers. I understand those." Well done!

Best example of shift register I have seen. Excellent work and thanks!

Best video I have found on shift registers yet. Nice work.

Good job explaining how this works. It makes a world of difference seeing it happen physically rather than trusting that what you programmed into your micro-controller wasn't just a happy accident...especially when you very new to programming.

Huge thank you! I went to college in the 80's for electronics and they did not explain shift registers correctly so I never thought I would use them. Now in 12 minutes I learned what I couldn't for the last 30 some odd year. So thank you.

Kevin thank you very much for this video, didn't matter how much I read, the best explanation was this video. KEEP IT UP!

wow! Great tutorials! Thank you for just putting it in plain English so others can understand you. I watched a ton of tutorials on shift registers and you taught me more in 10 minutes than a host of others did in several hours.

Hey man. Thank you for this great video. I had a hard time figuring out how the shift registers work and you made it so clear. Thank you so much.

Oh my god thank you, this is the best explination of shift registers I have found on youtube some of the other ones being upwards of an hour without explaining what the pins actually did

Dude, your videos are awesome! Everything is explained really well and very easy to understand watching these chips work in 'slow motion' using push buttons

Dude, that was phenomenal! Thanks so much! I've been racking my brain all day long to understand this thing. You've made it so clear. I'm sure there are hundreds of people out there who feel the same was as I do.

This is probably the best Shift Registers tutorial! Thanks!

Thanks a lot, man. It's actually quite simple, but it needs a clear explanation. Showing that setup and guiding viewers through the shifting process helped a lot.

Beautiful. Before watching this I loosely understood that shift registers were used to store some kind of information somehow. You did such an excellent job of explaining everything and it helped me immensely in understanding how shift registers work. Thank you!

This is the best class on the HC595 that I've found. Thank you.

Hi Kd, I've been an (electronics) engineer for about 25 years and have recently watched a number of your videos. I must say you have a very clear way of explaining things and even though I know how a shift register works, I still enjoyed your tutorial. Keep it up :)

Every one is praising u ,so I. Tks for demo video .I feel happy

I got an arduino learning kit and have been trying to figure out shift registers all day. This video helps more than anything I've seen so far. Thanks!

Bravo, Kevin Darrah! This is the perfect video. You are a master.

Excellent tutorial. The LEDs and simple explanation are very helpful. I don't know much about electronics but I know a lot more about shift registers now than I ever did before! Thanks for making this :)

Brilliant great explanation, most informative 12 mins I've spent watching a video in a long time

The best explanation I have seen so far and I finally understand how this works although English is not my 1st language... Thanks a lot!

I can't say enough about your tutorials. Great vids man, I'm really learning a lot. I just purchased some 74HC595 registers after watching this vid.

Great tutorial. Nice to see someone take the time to keep it simple. Thanks!

i really appreciated, thank you very much, it was extremely helpful, very explanatory, it took me multiple hours of re watching and some after thoughts to fully grasp everything and clear my mind of confusions.

thanks for making all the wires the same color as the breadboard, I hate it when tutorials are not impossible to dissect visually.

Best explanation of shift registers I have seen. Great video. Thanks

i've seen a lot of tutorials but yours was the one which helped me finally understand how shift registers work so thanks realy much

The best shift register video out there, and also good idea to show that you can connect two of those. But that also made it more complicated for me when looking at the practical example. Nevertheless Thanks!

Forgot how shift registers worked, and it only took this video to refresh it :) Nice way to explain one of this works :)

It certainly elevates my primary understanding of how shift register works. Thanks Kevin. Very interesting demonstration.

Thanks for this one :) I keep coming back to this video quite often. Nicely done.

The best video, of all the videos on shift registers

Thanks Kevin. Great tutorial as usual. This helped me understand shift registers. Hope you keep producing these. Your RGB cube is on my list of things to make this year!

I have no idea how such a thing would work on the inside, but this is an awesome way to see the connection between programming and electrical engineering!

I finally understand how to wire up this IC. Thank you for the video Kevin, my lord

Great video, makes a lot of sense and loved your microcontrollerless approach!

Great video once again, I wish I saw this video when I was still wrapping my head around these. I love them too, the limits of how much you can drive from a microcontroller just skyrockets. What would be fun to mention is that you also have shift in registers(parralel in, serial out) so you can have lots of inputs(digital). Hopefully we will learn more on other chips.

Thanks, this is the first video that really made me understand shift registers.

Very Very good, and it is cool, you explained it without a Micro Controller. Also, the pace of the tutorial is just perfect. Please keep posting such great tutorials. Please bring in more conceptual tutorials like this, may be a series dedicated to explain micro-controllers and the concepts involved, specially for the young ones and starters.

great video!! unlike my professor only shows us bunch of 0s and 1s without explain what we can actually do with registers in real life. we need to know both theories and applications!

this man is the inspiration i started electronics...

Another great video, Kevin! I built a traffic light simulator (4-way with left turn signals for the main street as well as crosswalk signals and emergency vehicle triggered light changes) using four of the 74HC595s... these are great for expanding the outputs of an Arduino. I also used two 8-bit parallel to serial shift registers for the road sensor/ pedestrian crosswalk buttons. Someday I will upload a video with the whole project. I like your videos - they are clear and easy to follow!

Really great explanation. Read some articles but this answered all my questions

Super helpful, I knew nothing about bit shifting and EE, this video is awesome.

What an outstanding tutorial. Very easy to follow and understand. Thanks

Thank you... Just started playing with circuits and that hands down was the clearest explanation of a sr.

The best video on these I have seen. Thanks

Hey man you explain thing very well!!!! Thank you so much dude! Now i get it!

Demystifying shift registers once and for all! You sir did splendidly on this tutorial.

That's awesome! Wasn't sure about this one, so I'm glad I made it after all!

Excellent video! You really explained in a extremely simple way how shift registers work. Great job, thanks.

Very nice tutorial my friend. You are very good at explaining things clearly. This is the first explanation I've seen that clearly defines functionality in a realistic way and... I've been looking! :) Thank you.

Brilliant. No surprise though, all of your videos have been just as good.

coooool.. I saw a lot of videos to understand the concept of the IC but I didn't got the idea. But this tutorial really helped. Thank you :D

you are such a great teacher, Thank you from the bottom of my heart for explaining this

Really nice to see a video, regardless of it being older, talking about shift registers and not including on microcontroller. If you are able to do a lot of stuff without microcontroller than you can just absolutely do killer stuff when you start using them! As a very stereotypical example, just a simple LED Chaser circuit, doing it with couple quad comparator chips , shift registers stuff like that is going to teach you so much more than diving straight into microcontrollers and microprocessors! If you get it even halfway decent understanding of operational amplifiers, latches and flip flops, miscellaneous 7400/5400 series chips or even 4000 series stuff and understand how to combine them together and so on and so forth -- it just allows you quite literally make whatever you want, even with just going a pic16 chip :-)