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Controlling Mechanical 7-Segment Displays?! How RS-485 and UART works! || EB#43

2019-10-20

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Visit https://flipdots.com/en/products-services/small-7-segment-displays/ to get your own mechanical 7-segment displays! (https://flip-digits.com/)

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Useful websites which were shown/used during the video:

https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slla272c/slla272c.pdf

http://www.circuitbasics.com/basics-uart-communication/

https://github.com/witnessmenow/arduino-youtube-api

In this video I will be having a closer look at commercial mechanical 7-segment displays and find out how they work. Afterwards I will be creating a YouTube subscriber counter with them and an ESP8266 by not only finding out how the control PCB for the display works, but also by learning about the RS-485 and UART interface. Let's get started!

Thanks to Alfazeta (https://flipdots.com) for sponsoring this video!

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2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats


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