I'm thinking of restarting that project and I spent a little time this afternoon looking at what would be involved.
It seems that the DIP version of the controller is no longer manufactured, and the only display I could find in my parts box is also no longer made. I don't think either of those issues is insurmountable; there seem to be a lot of the DIP chips for sale on eBay, and I guessed that the display pinout was probably the same as you find in more up-to-date displays from the same manufacturer.
I was fairly sure that the display was a common-anode type, which the controller requires; I quickly lashed up a test circuit using a lobstar and checked the connections.
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lobstar and 7 segment display |
I'll start by breadboarding a lobstar-controlled version and then look at what's involved in controlling it from the Raspberry Pi.
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