Six boards left if someone has TIL311 display chips and 74hc595 latches to build this RETRO project. Free, if I am allowed to list you as a beta-tester on this Hackaday site, just send your address, ( one per customer ), :-)
The way the 74hc595 latches work with the TIL311's is like this below :
//---------------------byte to control decimal points----------------------------
digitalWrite(latchPin, LOW); // set latch for data
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, LSBFIRST, 219); // blink decimals on
digitalWrite(latchPin, HIGH); // light up the leds
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//-------------------------2 nibbles for minutes------------------------------------
digitalWrite(latchPin, LOW); // set latch for data
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, LSBFIRST, mcount);// shift out the bits
digitalWrite(latchPin, HIGH); // light up the leds
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//-------------------------2 nibbles for hours---------------------------------------
digitalWrite(latchPin, LOW); // set latch for data
shiftOut(dataPin, clockPin, LSBFIRST, hcount);// shift out the bits
digitalWrite(latchPin, HIGH); // light up the leds
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ok, the "HIGH CURRENT" version is up, next will be the extended life time pcb with blanking and strobe control to tweek the current draw down to "last forever" values.