Chapter 6: Designing a Giant Seven-Segment Display
In this chapter, we will have fun with some retro-style displays. We will build a giant display driven by the Pico. It is a fun experience to build visual aids involving LEDs and seven-segment displays. By the end of this chapter, you should be able to build something like the display shown in the following figure, where we have a seven-segment display inside a shadow box:
Figure 6.1 – Giant seven-segment display
In this chapter, we will discuss building such visual aids. We will also discuss options to build displays of different sizes and applications. The topics discussed in this chapter include the following:
- Inspiration for the project
- Installing the required libraries
- Selecting a seven-segment display
- Wiring up the giant seven-segment display
- Writing the drivers for the giant seven-segment display
- Using the display
- Putting it all together
