2.7 4-Digital 7-Segment Display¶
Overview¶
In this lesson, you will learn about the 4-Digital 7-Segment Display. It consists of four 7-segment displays working together so as to display 4 digit numbers.
Components Required¶

Fritzing Circuit¶

Schematic Diagram¶

Code¶
Note
You can open the file
2.8_ledMatrix.ino
under the path ofsunfounder_vincent_kit_for_arduino\code\2.8_ledMatrix
directly.Or copy this code into Arduino IDE 1/2.
Then Upload the Code to the board.
Please make sure you have added the library called
TimerOne
, detailed tutorials refer to Add Libraries.
Code Analysis¶


There are two points needing your attention:
Because every segment display works independently in the 4-Digital 7-Segment Display, the principle of visual persistence is applied to quickly display every 7 segment character in turn to form a continuous character string.
Refer to 2.5 7-Segment Display to check the details of the number display of the 4-Digital 7-Segment Display.
In this example, a library TimerOne.h is used to realize the function of counting.
#include "TimerOne.h"
Library Functions:
void initialize(long microsenconds=1000000)
You must call this method first to use any of the other methods. You can optionally specify the timer’s period here (in microseconds), by default it is set at 1 second.
Note
This breaks analogWrite() for digital pins 9 and 10 on Arduino.
void attachInterrupt(void (*isr)(), long microseconds=-1);
Calls a function at the specified interval in microseconds. Be careful about trying to execute too complicated of an interrupt at too high of a frequency, or the CPU may never enter the main loop and your program will ‘lock up’. Note that you can optionally set the period with this function if you include a value in microseconds as the last parameter when you call it.
void detachInterrupte();
Disables the attached interrupt.
Phenomenon Picture¶
