I have seen many processors(such as devest8a's) come into distribution recently and I am in no way saying there are no improvements that can be made, however I would like to point out that we(or atleast myself) haven't seen any creations that are effective at creating animations based on a program(well, 8x6 text display is very close to the idea and quite brilliant). In this thread I would encourage anyone to post ideas(or even better, actual implementations) of a working, programmable screen. I personally believe a great community goal would be to create a very basic computer(w/ display, processor, memory and the ability to program). Obviously breaking things down into segments is necessary to complete something like this.
My personal Ideas:
Use a stack like what is used in the processor w/ stack, where each space corresponds to a segment
-More Complex: binary to decimal converter, get x from first row, y from second and alternate each.
-Simple: Many spaces each pointing a different segment
-Midway: Convert binary to decimal, each decimal pointing to an individual segment

Now don't get me wrong, I AM NOT good with electronics and processors, but I feel this is a good idea.

hmm, maybe a good new material would be like lcry except alternating based on sparks, first spark turns on, second turns off. Also, right now I'm not thinking big, maybe 8x8 at most. We would use NOT gates that send a spark to a PSCN wire if there is a spark and a spark to an NSCN wire if there isn't one, removing the need for a turn off command.