Edge-lit Display Decoder Test
The display is being illuminated using 10 white LEDs salvaged from a £1 string of battery-powered Christmas lights. This is a very cheap way to get white LEDs with flat tops and I found 30 more LEDs on strings like this so that's enough for 3 more digits.
The decoder takes a 4-bit binary-coded decimal (BCD) value and uses a 74HC138 to decode 0-7 and a 74HC00 to decode the remaining 8 and 9 digits (values above 9 are meaningless in this set-up). To test the circuit I connected a rotary BCD-encoded switch I've had in the spares box for almost 20 years. The switch goes from 0-15 (decimal) coded in 4-bits and the flickers to 0 you can see in the video are caused by the switch breaking before make.
This is the hard work done. Using 2 more HC chips and a ULN2803 I can build a simple 2-4 line decoder with increased current handling. This will allow a PIC or Arduino to multiplex drive 4 displays using just 6 output lines. I might even use an old 16F84 I have as an I2C slave to control the displays.
Clock, thermometer or rev counter?
Video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRQ_0nWnbtk
The decoder takes a 4-bit binary-coded decimal (BCD) value and uses a 74HC138 to decode 0-7 and a 74HC00 to decode the remaining 8 and 9 digits (values above 9 are meaningless in this set-up). To test the circuit I connected a rotary BCD-encoded switch I've had in the spares box for almost 20 years. The switch goes from 0-15 (decimal) coded in 4-bits and the flickers to 0 you can see in the video are caused by the switch breaking before make.
This is the hard work done. Using 2 more HC chips and a ULN2803 I can build a simple 2-4 line decoder with increased current handling. This will allow a PIC or Arduino to multiplex drive 4 displays using just 6 output lines. I might even use an old 16F84 I have as an I2C slave to control the displays.
Clock, thermometer or rev counter?
Video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRQ_0nWnbtk
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