Good that you mentioned ShiftOut. On that note…
I use an ESP-8266 for most of my projects (specifically the WeMos Mini D1).
Limited in PINs, but I want to control many steppers, so I use the mentioned
ShiftOut.
Basically, using 595s (4 of them), I control 8 stepper motors. A 595 having 8
ou
One other thing to addIt's good practice to loop-back the end of the
serial chain to your controller so you can run diagnostics on the serial
chain.
On my projects, I run the clock and data signals back to the Raspberry Pi
or FPGA so I can verify the integrity of the chain. If the clock doe
