seven-segment display (Image courtesy of LXD, Inc.) In their natural state, liquid crystals line up with the orientation "rubbed" into the front and rear glass panels. The rubbings are microscopic ...

That’s pretty impressive, considering the last matrix 7-segment display we saw required 48 Arduinos ... [Frugha] picked a nice font and hand-coded lookup tables for each digit.

With multi-segment displays ... up in the display department. He’s played with masking LED matrix displays with SMD stencils before, and figured out how to send custom fonts to 16×2 displays ...