Compact 7-seg 0-9 counter

  • Aizria
    21st Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Hey everybody! I finally managed to finish a 0-9 counter that uses my tiny 7-seg LCD display along with a compact decimal-to-7-seg decoder and an 11-output timing chip wich outputs true decimal to the inputs of the decoder and reset signals to the LCD segments.
  • Aizria
    21st Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Any thoughts?
  • -cm64-
    21st Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I, for one, (I wish I could be for, like, 10) love it! It's the smallest counter that I've ever seen. It must have been hard to time the wires perfectly. The only display I made was this monster sized thing in one of the old powder toys. It hardly even worked... Anyway, great job!
  • triclops200
    21st Aug 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    WOW count 10 more for me too!
  • bchandark
    21st Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I was trying to find a way to make the matrix smaller with the help of insulator, but I can't seem to do it. the L shaped path spark can skip needs an insulator pixel, which in turn does not allow the vertical lines to go through. Anyone find a way to use insulator to make it smaller?
  • Aizria
    21st Aug 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Thanks guys! Glad to know you like it! It was indeed a pain in the arse to get it to not have timing issues. Also, bchandark, I also tried this miniaturization of the decoder using INSL and, as can be seen by the fact that I didn't use the smaller version, it didn't work very well for me either.