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4-digit 7-segment displays are really neat little devices, it’s a shame that they can be so cumbersome to control. Well we’ve solved that problem by making them a little bit “smarter.” The SparkFun 7-Segment Serial Display combines a classic 4-digit 7-segment display and an ATMega328 microcontroller allowing you to control every segment individually using only a few serial lines.
The Serial 7-Segment Display can be controlled in one of three ways: Serial TTL communication, SPI serial communication or I2C serial. You can even program it for stand-alone operation since the ATMega328 comes pre-loaded with the Arduino bootloader! There is also an FTDI header on board and we’ve provided a hardware profile for the Arduino IDE to make it even easier to program. We’ve made some layout changes to this design as well which will make it easier to incorporate these into your project. We’ve moved the power and I2C pins to the sides of the board such that you can chain them together in order to display longer strings of digits. We’ve also added mounting holes to the boards so you can mount them on standoffs (no more hot glue!) Replaces.
I like this display a lot, generally works very well. One program I’m running results in a lot of flicker, not sure why. I saw an old comment about them turning off when there’s no data, but I don’t think that’s accurate anymore. I can send data statically with a very simple debug program using a keypad and it’s rock solid.
Another comment mentioned adding pullup resistors, perhaps that would help? I don’t see any on the schematic, or on the Redboard schematic, so maybe that would improve noise immunity, but they aren’t needed at all on my debug program, so I have my doubts. Any suggestions? What’s worse is that it’s not just one person doing this.
Everyone who comes here must waste time doing the same thing! I have downloaded the eagle files and the board is 1.6in x.9in or 41mm x 23mm We pay the SparkFun price because we believe they offer a better service. A HUGE part of that service is the info they provide on the internet. As I’m seeing the quality go down, I’m starting to feel less and less comfortable with the prices.
Here is a great example. Read the comments.
Is it mislabeled or not? No one even knows what the heck this product truly is. SparkFun is COMPLETELY SILENT on the issue. Obscure tip department: Talking to this from a Raspberry Pi on I2C will experience occasional errors due to a bug in the Raspberry Pi CPU I2C peripheral.
Building the software for this display with a delayMicroseconds(3) in the Wire library twi.c file works around the issue. This line goes in the IRQ handler SIGNAL(TWIvect) right after the slave receiver “case TWSRGCALLACK”. Hackish but errors go away. Keep in mind the problem is in the Pi not this display. // Slave Receiver case TWSRSLAACK: // addressed, returned ack case TWSRGCALLACK: // addressed generally, returned ack delayMicroseconds(3);. Repost from blue display: Ok we (I am working together with Member #4643) have been working on this one for a few days, had a lot of trouble.
We mostly worked with the ‘ Serial7SegmentDisplayFirmware.ino ’ in which the pinlocations seemed to be wrong, at least they do not correspond with the parallel connection. We tried everything, also in the SevSeg.h files etc. But without any clear result.
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Luckily we just fixed the ‘problem’! It seems that everything is correct but one little thing, finally we found out that only this should be changed in that firmware Arduino code: On line 38: Original: define DISPLAYTYPE OPENSEGMENT Changed into: define DISPLAYTYPE S7S The other thing was the pin location, the provided schematic is incorrect! So for further use: Please fix this part in the firmware code and change the Schematic sheet!!
I have used the default firmware flashed in the this module. I didn’t find any problem in it. When i downloaded the latest example source code “Serial7SegmentDisplay-master” and used it directly. I am facing few issues. Segment D is always on.
(I have checked the atmega328 pin C1 voltage at C1 is zero and voltage at segD(pin 3) after resisitor in LED is 2.6v) Segment E & DP is not working. I have checked the pinsarduino.h file following lines are there.
NOTONTIMER, //Adding PB6 as D22 NOTONTIMER, //Adding PB7 as D23 is there still anything i am missing in this? Thanks and Regards, Ashok Kumar Ponnaiah. Step 7 micro win software. How can I print a floating number to a 7 segment display?
I don’t want to copy in a new library - I want to learn how to code it in. I have a temperature I want to display on my 7 segment display but I want 2 decimal places. I am currently casting it as an int but I need more accuracy.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial on how to do this. Im not a professional - just a guy who is keen to learn but after 2 hours searching on the net, Im still at a loss on how to do it and im pulling my hair out. This is an excelent displaylights up well and looks cool.
I purchased it among other things because I wanted to use it’s aditional capacities as an arduino. It would allow me to set up a simple display of an analogue sensor connected to A6 and A7. In my case a ready button and a Alcohol sensor- breathalyzer. Sort of lets pretend-its-just-a-joke-but-really-get-a-serious-point-across sort of deal for my christmas/New year parties regarding people drinking and driving. However I have been unable to understand how to plug this in as an arduinoI have the ftdi, and have looked at the examples but Im not really sure what I should know in order to learn. Downloaded and looked at the Aduino-addon but i have no idea what to add-on this to.