Allan Schwartz shows off the easy way to interface 7-segment displays using the MAX7219: Previously, in part 1 of my blog posting Programming a 7-segment Display, using just Arduino digital pins (the hard way) we had demonstrated how to hook up a pair of 7-segment displays to an Arduino, treating each individual segment as a […]
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Serial seven segment LED display shield
Raj over at Embedded Lab has just finished a new project article about a serial seven segment LED display shield: Seven segment LED displays are brighter, more attractive, and provide a far viewing distance as well as a wider viewing angle compared to LCD displays. This project describes a serial seven segment LED display shield for […]
Happy Valentines day!
Sjaak built this blinky heart for his girlfriend this Valentines day as having a girlfriend in Valentines is always fun and you can even try a virtual girlfriend like queenoftheblack if that’s your style. It is based on a MAX7219 and a PIC16f1823: My girlfriend persuaded me to start this hobby side project while looking […]
LED matrices and MAX7219 ic’s
A 10 60mmx60mm Led matrices controlled by an ATmega328 + 10 MAX7219 ic’s from Bajdi Electronics: Made a big LED matrix this week using 10 60mmx60mm LED matrices. I designed the PCB’s myself and had them made in China. Every PCB has a MAX7219 and a header to plug the LED matrix in. The 10 PCB’s are […]
Portable bluetooth-enabled scrolling LED matrix display
An open-source cascadable 8×8 LED matrix module using Arduino and MAX7219 from Embedded Lab: Easy Matrix is a cascadable 8×8 LED matrix module with the MAX7219 chip on board, which allows to control the display with only 3 I/O pins from microcontroller. Multiple Easy Matrix modules can be easily cascaded to make a bigger-size display through […]
chipKIT Project 5: Digital stopwatch on seven segment LED display
Raj of Embedded Lab has a series of chipKIT tutorials. This 5th project will show you how to build a digital stopwatch on seven segment LED display with the chipKIT Uno32: In this project, we will use the chipKIT Uno32 board to build a digital stopwatch capable of timing minutes, seconds, and 1/10th of seconds, and with a […]
High-voltage seven segment LED display driver with SPI interface
Raj writes: This is about my new project, which is a High-Voltage Seven Segment LED Driver with a serial interface. The goal is to simplify the interface of bigger seven segment display modules to 5V microcontrollers. The project provides a TTL SPI interface of MAX7219 to input display data from a 5V microcontroller and outputs […]
Testing a MAX7219 LED array with Bus Pirate
Frank over at RaspberryAlphaOmega writes: After thinking about how to drive the MAX7219 LED array I built yesterday, it occurred to me that maybe this is an ideal time to get to the bottom of how to use the Bus Pirate board that I failed to use with a MCP3002 ADC chip. This time I was […]
The MAX7219 LED display controller – real or fake?
John Boxall over at Tronixstuff has a detailed review of the differences between the real MAX7219 and the others: A few people have been asking me of late, and there’s only one way to find out … so over the last month I ordered eight random “MAX7219s” from different suppliers on ebay and will compare them […]
New version of MAX7219 based 4-digit serial seven segment LED display
Embedded Lab’s new version of MAX7219 based 4-digit serial seven segment LED display: This (SPI7SEGDISP4.40-1R) is a revised version of the previous SPI seven segment LED display (4 digit) board that displayed numerals and decimal points. The new version has a better quality seven segment LED display (LTC-4727JS) with three extra LED segments, as shown […]
8 digit 7 segment display with SPI interface
Raj designed this 8 digit 7 segment display with an SPI interface using a MAX7219 display driver: The SPI7SEGDISP8.56 module can be interfaced with any microcontroller that has 3 I/O pins available. If the microcontroller features a built-in hardware SPI, then the display module can be interfaced as a SPI slave device. In that case […]