We’re not sure, but the number of recognizable alphanumeric characters that a seven-segment display can manage seems to have more to do with human pattern recognition than engineering. It takes some ...

Costumes are mandatory! So, as part of my costume, I have gotten the idea into my head that I'd like to build a wearable, battery-powered, 8-character alphanumeric display using 14-segment LEDs. I'm ...

Hackers love 7-segment displays, and will gladly wax lyrical about the silly words you can almost spell on them and so on. Less appreciated are their bigger cousins, the fourteen and sixteen segment ...

The project illustrates a Charlieplexing of a group of 7-segment LED displays which is similar to the Charlieplexing of discrete LEDs but with some changes since all the LED segments have a common pin ...