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Digital Dice

In the last project, we learned how to use 74HC595 to light up the LED Segment Display. Of course, we can expand on this basis to make it more interesting.

Here, we will add a button to the previous project to make a digital dice. When the button is pressed, the 7 segment display will randomly show 1-6.

Schematic

../_images/Digital_Dice.png

Wiring

../_images/Digital_Dice_friz.png

Code

When the program starts running, every time you press the button, the digital tube will randomly display a number from 1 to 6.

How it works?

SEGCODE = [0x3f,0x06,0x5b,0x4f,0x66,0x6d,0x7d,0x07,0x7f,0x6f]

First, define a hexadecimal array to represent the number from 0 to 9 displayed by the 7 segment display.

if (digitalRead(button)==HIGH){
    dice = random(1,7);
}

When the value of the button is HIGH, i.e. the key has been pressed, the random() function is called to generate a random number from 1 to 6 to be stored in the variable dice.

The following table shows the codes corresponding to these numbers.

Glyph Code

Numbers

Binary Code

Hex Code

0

00111111

0x3f

1

00000110

0x06

2

01011011

0x5b

3

01001111

0x4f

4

01100110

0x66

5

01101101

0x6d

6

01111101

0x7d

7

00000111

0x07

8

01111111

0x7f

9

01101111

0x6f

dice = random(1,7) the random function generates pseudo-random numbers from 1 to 6(Exclude 7).

digitalWrite(STcp,LOW); //ground ST_CP and hold low for as long as you are transmitting
shiftOut(DS,SHcp,MSBFIRST,datArray[dice]);
digitalWrite(STcp,HIGH); //pull the ST_CPST_CP to save the data
delay(100); //wait for a second

Display the corresponding number on the 7 segment display via shiftOut() function.