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[Quinn Dunki] is looking to augment the tools she has available at her electronics bench and built the HEX Out as a mock-logic sniffer. The device reads 8 or 16-bit inputs, showing the current state of those connections on a 7-segment display. This requires that you're comfortable reading Hex codes, but if you're not it's almost like studying flash cards; before long you'll be able to read them … [Read more...]
We can order seven segment displays in red, green, yellow, or blue all day long. One thing we haven't seen is an RGB segmented display, so [Markus]' project is really interesting. He took a stock seven segment display and modded it into an RGB display. After taking a Dremel to the back of the stock display, [Markus] was left with a seven segment light mask. A few SMD LEDs were purchased through … [Read more...]
We here at Hack A Day love LED's, and all things LED related, but one of the biggest problems with LED's are the small size. We want bigger and brighter, matrices the size of our TV, seven segments as big as a wall and a single white led the size of a baseball, and brighter than the sun! I was recently commissioned to make a device which uses a pretty large number display, and I went out … [Read more...]
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