The Natural Philosopher wrote, on 29-03-2019 10:17:
> Pi is not so easy to work with at hardware level. Linux in the way.
> Possibly arduino instead?

Yes. Although one 8-bit shift register that's not super super fussy
about timings can even be bitbanged in Python, e.g. almost top google
hit
https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/raspberry-pi-74hc595-shift-r
egister-tutorial
(The python gpio lib might have changed a bit (ha. ha.) since
Jessie=what they're using there, idk.)

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