Arduino 7-segment Display : 5 Steps

The purpose of this project is to find out how a 7-segment display works. To try this out, I also use 2 buttons and a potentiometer. These produce various outputs: a carousel-like show and a value that corresponds to the potentiometer position.

Supplies

1 computer with arduino IDE

1 Arduino Uno

1 USB cable

1 breadboard

1 7-segment display

2 push buttons

1 resistor 220 Ohms

2 resistors 10 kOhms

1 potentiometer 5 kOhms

Step 1:

This is the very common 7-segment display I use. The yellow numbers show to which digital outputs I connected the segments.

Step 2:

the wiring using a breadbord

Step 3:

And finally the source code c++. I have defined 2 arrays that contain numbers on the one hand and some letters on the other hand for output.

I didn't like the behavior of the push buttons. That's why I created a kind of button debouncing: function readButton.

I have prepared the values 0 to 1023 returned by the potentiometer so that they either display the values 0 to 9 or empty, A to I,switchable with the 2nd button. The 1st button shows this segment carousel