We’ve been displaying numbers using segmented displays for almost 120 years now, an invention that predates the LEDs that usually power the ubiquitous devices by a half-dozen decades or so. But LEDs ...

Utter the words “7-segment display” amongst hackers and you’ll typically get people envisaging the usual LED and LCD versions that we all come across in our daily lives. However, mechanical versions ...

A common display found on digital watches and readouts that looks like a series of 8s. Each digit is formed by selective illumination of from one to seven separately addressable segments. For more ...

In many respects, an LCD module is an ideal display; easy to use, available in a wide choice of sizes and capacity and supported in MBasic with one easy-to-use function, LCDWrite. But, as good as LCD ...

Just to close out the topic of electromechanical display technologies, it behooves us to at least make mention of rotating-prism displays and their various cousins. Where split-flap displays present ...

The single-digit seven-segment BD Series LED displays are available in a range of six different digit heights from 0.276 (7 mm) to 1.0 in. (25.4 mm) in 24 different styles and models. Common anode or ...

The DA852x driver ICs are capable of driving 20-, 64-, 96-, 192- and 256-segment paper-thin electronic displays which can be integrated into several applications such as mobile phones, capacity meters ...

My current hobby project involves creating a 21st Century incarnation of a super-tasty 21-segment Victorian display technology. I will explain more in a moment, but first... I don’t know about you, ...

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, ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Withings, a world leader in enabling healthier lifestyles through products that encourage activity, today announced Go, a fashionable activity and sleep tracker. Go is ...