Research

A compilation of resources for setting up 7 and 16-segment displays and drivers. Practical Electronics for Inventors gives a great explanation of displays in the appendix. We've been working with 7-segment and 16-segment LED displays.

Display Drivers/ICs
MM5450 :: 7-Segment LED display driver. We set this chip up to drive up four seven shipment displays. Multiplexing needs to be used in order to drive eight displays instead of just the four.
MAX6954 :: 16-Segment LED display driver can power up to eight displays (on order)
Allegro shift register - ...

Displays
Seven segment from Radio Shack
Dual seven segment
Sixteen segment display
HPDL1414 :: "Smart" Alphanumeric Display include embedded IC, driver, latch decoder and character fonts (ordered waiting for delivery).

Resources
Maxim 16-Segment display tutorial

Setup

The blog documenting our Physical Computing final is alive and well. Even though there are only a few weeks Left tin the semester, capturing what we do is important. Instead of creating a documentation page for the project, it's easier to create something we can all edit.