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 ...

For the simplest of builds, 7-segment display modules usually get dug up from ... [rhoalt] had neither, but he did have several 8 LED Neopixel rings lying around. So he thought of experimenting ...