We here at Hack A Day love LED’s, and all things ... to make a device which uses a pretty large number display, and I went out shopping. The seven segment we liked best was still quite pricey ...

Inspired by a prank tweet, [Sam Ettinger] endeavored to create an SMD seven-segment display. The NanoRaptor ... Each of the seven segments is a single 0201 LED. Six I/O lines and three ...

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 ...