7 segment LED display driver


Posted on Feb 13, 2013

If you're not familiar with the Arduino, it is `an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software`. It has a small microcontroller, a USB port to connect to your computer for programming, a power socket for providing power when the USB cable isn't connected, and various digital and analog input and output pins, for connecting up to leds, switches and various sensors.


7 segment LED display driver
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It's inexpensive, and there's an open source IDE for programming. Works great, but one issue that I quickly ran into was remembering my circuits. I'd make something up on a breadboard, write a program for it, and then tear it apart to build another circuit. When I wanted to go back to an earlier circuit, I had the program saved, but I couldn't always remember how I had wired up the circuit. So I went looking for a program that would let me document my circuits, and I found Fritzing. It's very easy to use. You drag parts off a palette and connect them up with drag and drop. You can work on a breadboard view or a schematic view, and they are automatically kept in sync. You can easily put bends into wires to route them in more visually appealing ways. Here's an example of a circuit using the Arduino Duemilanove and a 7 Segment Red LED 0.3" Digital Display (RadioShack 276-075). Building this I was able to experiment with another feature of Fritzing, because the 7 Segment LED included in the core parts of the tool was a common anode numerical display. Although these pictures don't show anode/cathode on the pins, it is visible in the tool, and I wanted to get it right. So I edited the part, changed the pin wiring, and saved it as a new part. This was all very straightforward. Then I decided I wanted to have the pins be labeled A, B, C so that it would show up in the schematic view. All the images are SVG, and I didn't...




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