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A project log for Gummi Worm Clock

I forgot to build something for the Bay Area Maker Faire Bring A Hack event. I started this on April 7th. The Faire is May 16th.

benchoffBenchoff 04/11/2015 at 01:410 Comments

Since I'm waiting two weeks or something until I get some boards and parts, It's a good enough time to figure out how this thing is going to be programmed. The first step to that is documenting how I laid this thing out. Here's the pin map:

Now it's a matter of how to connect this to the driver. Here's the datasheet for the driver. It gives me eight RGB drivers. Here's a table, because the editing tools on here are awesome:

How the displays are connected
Driver output numberSegment of the display
1B
2A
3G
4F
5E
6D
7C

And the pinout:

...and that's how you route these things with any semblance of sanity:

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