Timed alternating binary signal sent to arduino

I am creating a low resolution machine vision device and I am using 4 analog to digital multiplexers to control my sensors.
I want to send a timed alternating binary number to the digital pins on the multiplexer but can't figure out how.
Essentially, I am trying to generate an 16 bit counter and send the status of each individual bit to a different digital pin on the arduino.
Can someone please help?
My code isn't very intuitive at the moment but I can post it if anyone wants to have a look.
Thank you!

Hello Haley,
I am indeed using the toolkit. I am using an arduino mega 2560 as well. I am also using 4 of these: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9056 to control my 8x8 array.
I want to control the digital inputs on the mux board with a rotating timer.
I have attached my program. Each group of four digital writes are intended to represent a multiplexer. I want to tie the respective pins from each mux together ie: all 4 pin 0s together and have them run on the same clock.
The cycle time isn't a priority at the moment.
Thank you so much for your help
Attachments:
multiplexer complete.vi ‏450 KB

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