Whos idea was it to publish a picture of a colour mod… in black and white?

Other than that.. pretty awesome work, would be cool in an alarm clock!

Personally I would have wired it so they all always lit the same color. That way, would have far fewer pins to worry about. Changing the color of the text is much more useful than changing parts of the characters’ color.

Mcgregor: heh.. yeah.. one digit that cycles through hours minutes and seconds flashing them by color.

What about AM & PM? Redshift towards midnight, blueshift towards noon? Taking it one step further, what about radar guns? Red if something is accelerating away from you, blue if it is accelerating towards you?

Well they DO exist in RGB! – Many temp controllers or PID regulators use them for showing alarms/ setpoint overload etc.

Yeah, they make black got glue sticks for this very purpose. Bit more expensive though, dollar or so a stick, minimum.

Awesome, I need a clock with this, especially if it could make waves of color.

Somewhat like the night lights that spin a colored filter in the heat rising from the bulb.

“I am pretty happy with the result”

As they should be. that’s really cool!

One could show two characters at one, for example the first in red, the second in blue, and the segments where the characters overlap in purple.

wallace, that’s a way cool idea. It might give me a headache to look at, but it’s a neat idea. it would make multiple number displays smaller. i like it at least.

How about an alarm clock that displays the outdoor temperature or the daily weather forecast using color? It’d be cool to know what kind of weather to expect as soon as you wake up to turn off the alarm.