Okay ladies and gents, here's a Chasing Light project using a single Shift Register (74HC595) and a TI Launchpad. (I'm currently following a line of research using the Shift Registers, but there is an easier way to do this with just a Launchpad alone.) It can be easily adapted for many uses. Examples include, but not limited to:

• Theatre Signs
• Airport Landing Strip
• Eat At Dave's Signs

This particular Launchpad project uses an external device called a Shift Register. Simply put, it's a device that remembers the 1 or 0 you just put into. If you put another 1 or 0 into it, it shifts all the existing saved 1's and 0's over one slot and adds your newest value in. It can hold 8 values, hence the term 8-bits.

Here's what it looks like when its all put together on a breadboard:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/66941940

Chasing Lights v1.0 from claymore1977 on Vimeo.

Schematics and Code at TheRustySpike.com