/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>807616
I have a computer engineering degree. This is electronics engineering with additional programming. In high school I was heavily involved with the Canadian Computing Competition and Canadian National Science fair. The awards I won through these payed for a big part of my schooling and got me accepted to one of the top engineering schools despite mediocre grades. In school I was miles ahead of everyone else when it came to programming and electronics lab work, and it was easy to get good internships.

These competitions were designed be done through a highschool with support of a teacher, but I found them myself, worked on my own, and talked a teachers into signing forms when necessary. Don't let a shitty highschool limit your extracurricular activities.

When I was in university I really struggled through the calculus,stats,etc. I went into engineering thinking it would be all hands on lab work and programming, but mostly it was studying calculus out of textbooks. I regret not pushing myself to get better in that area when I was younger. Once you get into an engineering program the workload is so heavy you can't teach yourself things in the same way.

>>799603
What can't you figure out about them? An RGB LED is three LEDs in one package (often with all cathodes or all anodes connected together). Drive them with three outputs from the shift register. The common anode or common cathode means you need to pay attention to if your shift register can sink or source current.

You're having trouble doing research because there aren't really any shift registers specifically designed for RGB LEDs. A shift register with eighteen outputs can drive six RGB LEDs or eighteen individual LEDs. There's no important difference.