[FilleK] had some time to spare and decided to build a cheaper substitute for a real nixie tube using a regular 7 segment LED display. We have already seen this hack before, in the Arduino-based ...

Though [Connor] labels it as a work in progress, we’re pretty impressed with how polished his transparent 7-segment display looks ... if you missed his LCD data transfer hack you should check ...

For more on color LCDs, see LCD subpixels. The above illustration highlights one segment of the liquid crystal layer in a monochrome twisted nematic (TN) seven-segment display (Image courtesy of ...