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# Assembled Adafruit 0.56&quot; 4-Digit 7-Segment Display

**Brand:** Adafruit

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## Pricing

- **Price:** $25.98
- **Stock:** In stock at supplier
- **Local warehouse:** 0 units
- **Supplier (Adafruit):** 100 units
- **SKU:** AF-5599

## Description

What&#39;s better than a single LED? Lots of LEDs! A fun way to make a small display is to use an 8x8 matrix or a 4-digit 7-segment display. Matrices like these are &#39;multiplexed&#39; - so to control all the seven-segment LEDs you need 14 pins. That&#39;s a lot of pins, and there are driver chips like the MAX7219 that can control a matrix for you but there&#39;s a lot of wiring to set up and they take up a ton of space. Here at Adafruit we feel your pain! After all, wouldn&#39;t it be awesome if you could control a matrix without tons of wiring? That&#39;s where these adorable LED matrix backpacks come in. We have them in two flavors - a mini 8x8 and a 4-digit 0.56&quot; 7-segment. They work perfectly with the matrices we stock in the Adafruit shop and make adding a bright little display trivial.The matrices use a driver chip that does all the heavy lifting for you: They have a built-in clock so they multiplex the display. They use constant-current drivers for ultra-bright, consistent color (the images above are photographed at the dimmest setting to avoid overloading our camera!), 1/16 step display dimming, all via a simple I2C interface. The backpacks come with address-selection jumpers so you can connect up to four mini 8x8&#39;s or eight 7-segments (or a combination, such as four mini 8x8&#39;s and four 7-segments, etc) on a single I2C bus.The product kit comes with: A fully tested and assembled LED backpack with a pre-soldered&amp;nbsp;ultra-bright 4-digit 0.56&quot; tall red seven-segment display 4-pin header To get you going fast, we have revised this popular board to be the same size and pinout as before but now with two STEMMA QT connectors&amp;nbsp;on either side that are compatible with the&amp;nbsp;SparkFun Qwiic&amp;nbsp;I2C connectors. This allows you to make solderless connections between your development board and the HT16K33 or to chain it with a wide range of other sensors and accessories using a&amp;nbsp;compatible cable.Of course, in classic Adafruit fashion, we also have a detailed tutorial showing you how to solder, wire, and control the display. We even wrote a very nice library for the backpacks so you can get running in under half an hour, displaying images on the matrix or numbers on the 7-segment. If you&#39;ve been eyeing matrix displays but hesitated because of the complexity, this is the solution you&#39;ve been looking for!&amp;nbsp;

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