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Mfr Part # PTS-00196-201
NANO FLIP ATMEGA328P EVAL BRD
PTSolns
Giving Life to an OLD Digit Display
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2025-10-31 | By PTSolns
License: Attribution Displays Microcontrollers
If you tinker around with electronics long enough, you'll eventually accumulate a bin full of random spare parts. Today, I take out some components from my 25+-year-old collection. I bring back to life an old single-digit 7-segment display that I cut out of something or other. I haven't really touched this part for decades... turns out it still works just fine.
I connected the seven positive wires to D2-D8 on the Nano Flip (using the NTEA-MD). After figuring out which wire corresponds to which segment, I wrote a sketch that shows two different modes. One is a type of chasing LEDs, and the other counts from 0 to 9 and repeats.
Just for fun, hope you enjoy :)
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