Eight Digit MAX7219 7-Segment Display, with Easy Arduino Library

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This is an 8 digit 7-segment display with an integrated MAX7219 driver. Photographing LEDs is hard, it looks better in real-life.

To make things easy for you I have written a simple Arduino library so you can treat your 7-Segment display almost like a Serial, for example

myLedDisplay.println("Hello");

is all you need to, err, print hello, if you are familiar with Arduino's Serial.print and println statement, you can print stuff on your 7-segment display just the same (within limitations, like, you can't display "w" on a 7-segment display...).

Here's the link to the library:

github.com

Download and Install instructions are there, once installed open the provided HelloWorld example to get started.