{"id":12290,"date":"2017-08-06T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2017-08-07T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:27:01","slug":"2017-08-06-seeing-digital-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12290","title":{"rendered":"2017-08-06 Seeing Digital Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From FB post about Arduino driving a &#8216;HC595 chip.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need an oscilloscope to see digital signals. \u00a0If you slow down the speed, you can see what&#8217;s happening by looking at LEDs. \u00a0Everything is digital, just on or off.<\/p>\n<p>Plug two red LEDs, transistors, and current limiting resistors for LEDs (330 ohms), and for the bases (4.7k) and use those as probes to show what the signal levels are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FB post about Arduino driving a &#8216;HC595 chip. You don&#8217;t need an oscilloscope to see digital signals. \u00a0If you slow down the speed, you can see what&#8217;s happening by looking at LEDs. \u00a0Everything is digital, just on or off. Plug two red LEDs, transistors, and current limiting resistors for LEDs (330 ohms), and for<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12290\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,10,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-digital","category-led","category-meters-and-test-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12292,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}