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Light Pipe 7-Segment Display

What do you get when you cross some Light-up Shoe Laces, some Neopixels and a 3D printed mount? A pretty cool display!

brian-loughBrian Lough
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This project was created on 08/09/2018 and last updated 6 years ago.

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What if I told you that you could build a display out of shoe laces!? Well that is exactly what I've done!

Building your own seven segment display is nothing new, it's a very common Arduino project, but I had an idea for this one so I said I'd give it a go, and I am absolutely delighted with how it came out!

It's made from Light up shoe laces (light pipe), some addressable RGB LEDs (Neopixels) and a 3D print.

The idea behind this design was inspired by the Cob LED projects that Unexpected Maker and David Watts are working on.

I would say version 1 of this project is complete, but I do want to improve it. This is a really messy implementation of potentially really cool project. I wanted to just get a version finished to prove out the concept.

For more details on this project please check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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  • 14 × Through Hole, Clear, Addressable RGB Leds
  • 1 × Light up Shoe Lace Never thought I'd be using shoe laces in an electronics project

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    https://www.hackster.io/brian-lough/lightpipe-7-segment-display-77f161


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