seven segment displays from bean hitt spin example

Sawmiller

hi ppl, got some of those seven segment displays off bean
and made up a lil demo spin file...
works for me now, hope it works after i try to upload it
code is patched together from the DS1620 lib code and beans examples for the sx28

dan

Jon Williams

It seems like a lot of folks ended up with those HC4LED displays so I took a crack at it after seeing your code work.· What I've done is created a reusable object with useful methods: str, dec, hex, and bin.· I need to add comments before it gets posted to our object repository, but I thought I'd share and take feedback before closing it up.

Update (16 MAY) : Object improved;·see below.

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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax

Post Edited (Jon Williams (Parallax)) : 5/16/2006 6:41:30 PM GMT

Bean

I have posted my spin code for the display here:

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=586851

Also here is an object in assembly that runs in another cog that will continuously update the HC4LED display to show the value of a spin variable.

Bean.

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Cheap 4-digit LED display with driver IC·www.hc4led.com


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Post Edited (Bean (Hitt Consulting)) : 5/16/2006 1:34:22 PM GMT

Sawmiller

most excellent...

will study these both tonight and see how to really do it.

thanks jon and bean..

dan

Jon Williams

The first version of my HC4LED object was written after very little sleep the last few days, and a six-hour drive from Hollywood to Rocklin yesterday -- what a difference a good night's rest will make.

I've added features and made improvements to the object; I have also added comments to clarify things, though the code is pretty simple.· Note that the start method changed a bit (to conform to·shiftio.shiftout) and I added a method that enables one to use the blanking pin on the display (the demo uses this).

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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax

Sawmiller

wow..

lots o diff functions in jons code, and speed is the name of the game in beans code

excellent stuff to mess with, and char maps too [noparse]:)[/noparse]

thanks again ,

dan