The above illustration highlights one segment of the liquid crystal layer in a monochrome twisted nematic (TN) seven-segment display (Image ... make up the desired letters and digits are unlit.

We’re used to seeing all manner of seven-segment displays, be they mechanical, electronic, or something in between. But what all these displays have in common is that they’re, you know, displays.

In many respects, an LCD module is an ideal display; easy to use, available in a wide choice of sizes and capacity and supported in MBasic with one easy-to-use function, LCDWrite. But, as good as LCD ...