Hackaday

7 segment

These days they’ve been replaced with character LCD displays or even brightly colored graphical displays, but if you’re trying to display data on one of your projects, there’s nothing like the classic ...
EDN

6-Digit USB LED Display Known as USB7

The project uses a USB virtual COM port in order to control the 6-digit LED display USB7. A reliable USB virtual serial port is being provided by the USB7 which uses a single microcontroller. For ...
EDN

Arduino 4-Digit 7-segment LED Display

Recently, we published an entry-level Arduino project with a single seven-segment LED display. Although it’s an amazing DIY project, we noted that most of the readers are looking for more advanced ...
Hackaday

Nano-Sized 7-Segment LED Display On A Surface Mount Module

Inspired by a prank tweet, [Sam Ettinger] endeavored to create an SMD seven-segment display. The NanoRaptor NanoSegment implements a panel of seven-segment display modules sized at “0806” each or just ...
Electronic Design

Drive Large 7-Segment LED Displays Using Only 1 Or 2 MCU Pins

Many options exist to drive seven-segment LED displays, but most are limited to low output currents. The approach described here uses one 74ALS374 or 74AS374 octal latch, wired as a shift register, ...