Technically it’s not a seven-segment display at all. [F.W. Wood] designed these really nice-looking “4”s with the diagonal heads, and so he needed eight segments per digit. But the basic ...

Before I knew it I had a working (serial and expandable) 9 inch tall 6 inch wide 7 segment display. I will be the ... which among other uses forms a basic memory. The 74HC595 is an 8 bit device ...

seven-segment display (Image courtesy of LXD, Inc.) In their natural state, liquid crystals line up with the orientation "rubbed" into the front and rear glass panels. The rubbings are microscopic ...