Retro LED Bubble Display

Hooking up a 30-year-old LED bubble display to an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010.

Mar 5, 2019

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lights

recycling

Components and supplies

NSA1166

Breadboard (generic)

Jumper wires (generic)

Resistor 220 ohm

Male Header 40 Position 1 Row (0.1")

Arduino MKR WiFi 1010

Project description

Code

Github

8bitkick

SevSegPlus

Improved Arduino seven segment LED display library for NSA1166 / Read More

Latest commit to the master branch on 08-03-2019

Download as a zip

Github

8bitkick

SevSegPlus

Improved Arduino seven segment LED display library for NSA1166 / Read More

Latest commit to the master branch on 08-03-2019

Download as a zip

Six digit seven segment

arduino

1#include "SevSegPlus.h" // https://github.com/8bitkick/SevSegPlus
2
3SevSegPlus  ledDisplay; 
4
5void setup()
6{
7  ledDisplay.begin(); 
8}
9
10void  loop()
11{
12  ledDisplay.print("  Hi  "); 
13  delay(1000);
14
15  ledDisplay.print("There  ");
16  delay(1000);
17}

#include "SevSegPlus.h" // https://github.com/8bitkick/SevSegPlus

SevSegPlus  ledDisplay; 

void setup()
{
  ledDisplay.begin(); 
}

void  loop()
{
  ledDisplay.print("  Hi  "); 
  delay(1000);

  ledDisplay.print("There  ");
  delay(1000);
}

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Sorry about the pasted photo ;)

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Anonymous user

2 years ago

I scavenged one of these from an old calculator 😍

Anonymous user

2 years ago

Great display, unfortunately they want 17,99$ for shipping to Europe :(

Anonymous user

2 years ago

scusa se sono un po' fuori tema, sono in possesso di 8 valvole IV-17 a 18 segmenti, è possibile pilotarle con arduino per fare apparire scritte a piacere? mi puoi aiutare ?Grazie

Anonymous user

4 years ago

scusa se sono un po' fuori tema, sono in possesso di 8 valvole IV-17 a 18 segmenti, è possibile pilotarle con arduino per fare apparire scritte a piacere? mi puoi aiutare ?Grazie

Anonymous user

6 years ago

I scavenged one of these from an old calculator 😍

Anonymous user

6 years ago

Really nice! Reminds me of the display of my old Texas Instruments calculators (that ran from 9v battery) Love the display but I sure don't miss those old calculators ;) cheers!

needfulthing

6 years ago

Great display, unfortunately they want 17,99$ for shipping to Europe :(

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