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 ...

What do you do if you see a bunch of 14-segment LED displays for sale for a penny a piece? [Fritzler], when faced with that conundrum did what any of us would do – he bought 64 14-segment displays and ...

The LED Micro-Readerboard utilizes a common-cathode alphanumeric LED display that spells out simple programmed messages and one letter at a time. The LED Micro-Readerboard utilizes a common-cathode ...

Fashion gets everywhere, even into good old alphanumeric display modules where new colours and appearance allow designers to give products a lift with very little effort. Once, you could have any ...

One look at this display and you know there’s a whole lot of pins that need to be wired up. Now look at what those display modules are mounted on. That’s right, [Kemley] is using point-to-point ...

When is a clock not a clock? When it's a big fat, programmable, five-character, 18-segment display, a bit like the Alpha Clock Five from Evil Mad Science. Its 2.3 inch 18-segment alphanumeric ...

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, ...