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  Understanding seven segment displays

  Posted: April 25th, 2010, 9:30am MDT

  

  I've been playing around with the 7-Segment Shield for Arduino from the Maker Shed, and realize that I need a better understanding of how seven segment displays work.

  When addressing the display from the sample Arduino sketch, I was pulling pre-formed characters from an array of hex values.

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