We’re used to seeing all manner of seven-segment ... original project. That’s good, because this looks ripe for hacking. It looks like it would be pretty easy to motorize a display like ...

[Peter Lehnér] has designed a brilliant 7-segment flip-segment display that doesn’t really ... or pully scheme is built into your projects!

seven-segment display (Image courtesy of LXD, Inc.) In their natural state, liquid crystals line up with the orientation "rubbed" into the front and rear glass panels. The rubbings are microscopic ...

For details about how liquid crystals work, see LCD subpixels for color screens and seven-segment display for monochrome. Passive displays are widely used with segmented digits and characters for ...