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7 Segment Display Lab

The goal of this lab was to wire and program a seven segment display with an Arduino to count to 15 in hexadecimal. They wired the display to digital output ports on the Arduino and used a switch case to set the proper segments to display each number. By creating a for loop that incremented by one and included the switch case function, they were able to easily increment the display up to 15. Determining the correct ports for each segment and manually programming the LED output for each switch case presented some challenges.

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7 Segment Display Lab

The goal of this lab was to wire and program a seven segment display with an Arduino to count to 15 in hexadecimal. They wired the display to digital output ports on the Arduino and used a switch case to set the proper segments to display each number. By creating a for loop that incremented by one and included the switch case function, they were able to easily increment the display up to 15. Determining the correct ports for each segment and manually programming the LED output for each switch case presented some challenges.

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Seven Segment Display Lab

Hunter Schmidt, Michael Heng and Justice Davis


Goal: The goal of this lab was to wire and program a seven segment display
with an Arduino microcontroller in order to count to 15 in hexadecimal.
Procedure: We began with a basic setup to wire the Arduino to a USB male
connection to get data and power. Then we wired the seven segment display
to digital output ports. Initially we had to determine which port went to each
segment. Then, we created a switch case to set the proper segments to fire
for each number. Because the display is common cathode, we had to turn off
segments by setting the output to HIGH and turn on segments by sending a
LOW value. By creating a for loop that incremented by one, and putting the
switch case function in the loop, we could increment the display easily.
Problems Encountered: We had to determine the ports that went to each
segment. We also had trouble manually programming the led output for
every switch case.

Schematic:

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