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2 layers47 × 33 mmSevensegment led display module, the printed circuit board in 3D

Sevensegment led display module

tardate/LittleArduinoProjects803

a collection of "Little Electronic & Arduino Projects", most involving electronics or an Arduino in one way or another!

Size
47 × 33 mm
Copper layers
2
Thickness
1.6 mm
Parts
11
Nets
22
Pads
47
Tracks, vias
106, 0
Pours
2
Routed
Yes
KiCad
KiCad 4
Created
31 Aug 2014
Updated
6 Nov 2026

Overview

Sevensegment led display module is an open-source printed circuit board by tardate, from the tardate/LittleArduinoProjects repository on GitHub, published under the MIT licence. It is a 2-layer board of 47 × 33 mm with 11 parts on 22 nets, routed with 106 tracks and 0 vias.

It is built around the 74HC595 and LTS-6980HR. Its parts include 8 resistors, 1 IC and 1 connector. It belongs with the lEDs and displays boards of this library.

Main components

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README

README.md

867 Little Electronic Art Projects

Latest addition :sparkles: Electronics for Today and Tomorrow - Book Notes: Electronics for Today and Tomorrow, by Tom Duncan, John Murray. First published December 31, 1985

LEAP is just my personal collection of electronics projects - usually involving an Arduino or other microprocessor in one way or another. Some are full-blown projects, while many are trivial breadboard experiments, intended to learn and explore something interesting.

Projects are often inspired by things found wild on the net, or ideas from the many great electronics podcasts and YouTube channels. Feel free to borrow liberally, and if you spot any issues do let me know (or send a PR!). See the individual projects for credits where due.

For a while I have also included various scale modelling projects here too, but I've now split those off into a new repository. Check out LittleModelArt if you are looking for the modelling projects!

The LEAP Project Index

The best way to browse the projects is to take a look at the LEAP Catalog. It's actually a static web site generated directly from the repository. Try it out:

leap-splash

Getting Up and Running

Some projects require additional libraries including FastLED, FlexiTimer2, RadioHead. A set of such libraries are included as submodules of this repository, see the libraries/ page for more information on the included libraries and submodule management.

For Arduino projects, I have the Arduino IDE sketchbook location (in preferences) set to the root of this repository. This makes all the projects available to me in the IDE, and automatically includes libraries that are linked as git submodules in the libraries/ folder.

If you don't have the Arduino IDE setup this way, libraries can be retrieved with git, or you can just install them separately as you would any other library.

If you clone this repo, also update the submodules to have them available for compilation:

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git submodule update --init

To pull submodule updates later on:

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git submodule foreach git pull

To update a specific library later on, e.g. TextFinder:

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git submodule update --remote libraries/TextFinder

The 10th Anniversary Archive

I started the LittleArduinoProjects GitHub repository back in 2014. Over the years it accumulated over 2Gb of obsolete commits, and so much git history that it wasn't even possible to do a git push of the entire repo without resorting to batch tricks.

Entering the 11th year of the repository, I decided to do a one-time squash of the project history and essentially restart the git history from scratch:

What this means in practice:

  • if you are just viewing LittleArduinoProjects on GitHub or the web, there is no impact
  • if you have a clone of the LittleArduinoProjects repository:
    • the simplest is just to throw it away and make a fresh clone of the repo
    • if you have work-in-progress changes on private branches, you will probably want to cherry-pick the changes to a branch based on the new main branch
      • if you need help with that, reach out or post an issue
  • old pull requests (PR) will be based on the old history. Reviving any old PRs will require the changes to be rebased on the new history.

Hopefully this will help make the LittleArduinoProjects repository fit for use for another 10 years or more..

Parts

11
QtyValueFootprintReferences
8220ΩResistors_ThroughHole:Resistor_Horizontal_RM10mmR1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8
174HC595Housings_DIP:DIP-16_W7.62mmU1
1CONN_01X05Pin_Headers:Pin_Header_Straight_1x05P1
1LTS-6980HRDisplays_7-Segment:7SegmentLED_LTS6760_LTS6780AFF1

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Questions

How big is the Sevensegment led display module PCB?

It measures 47 × 33 mm and has 2 copper layers, 1.6 mm thick.

What parts does the Sevensegment led display module use?

11 parts, built around the 74HC595 and LTS-6980HR. The full list of its parts is on this page, with links to each part's symbol and footprint where PCBKit's library has them.

Where can I download the Sevensegment led display module KiCad files?

From the tardate/LittleArduinoProjects repository on GitHub, at the commit this page was made from: the board is playground/LED7Segment/ShiftDriveModule/kicad_project/sevensegment_led_display_module.kicad_pcb. PCBKit opens the board in the browser, with nothing to install.

Can I use the Sevensegment led display module design in my own project?

Its repository publishes it under the MIT licence: you may reuse it on that licence's terms (keep the author's notice, and for a copyleft licence share your changes alike).