38 SEGMENT DISPLAY

WHAT IS THIS: My 38 segment display is designed to nicely display Chinese/Japanese numerals. I call it PEKSEG. At 38 segments some may ask, “at that point why not just use a matrix display?“ and to them I say, yes... WHY I MADE THIS: I saw Posy’s video on segmented displays and it made me wonder if anyone had tried to make one for Chinese/Japanese numerals. So I looked it up and was kinda disappointed with what I found. There are a lot of designs out there, and some of them are really cool! But pretty much every one I saw had 1 or 2 digits that were a bit wonky looking (either not nicely centred/poor readability, had noticeably smaller or bigger digits, or the whole design was squashed down to counteract some of these issues and looked strange to me) I wanted to see if I could make a design that keeps all the numbers similar sizes, clear, and like they belong next one one another. So I just started drawing designs in a notebook when I was bored. I’d say I went through at least 10 different designs until I figured this one out. I actually gave up at one point but then had a dream about adding a bar in between the upper half, which would let me make 百, 千, and 万. That idea basically led to this final design from what I had already been making. I was really only focused on making ０一二三四五六七八九十百千万, but because I had added so many segments, by the end it was capable of making way more stuff. Ultimately I just made this for fun. I don’t have any plans to use it. But if you do want to use it just credit me and let me know. my twitter - Music - SpongeBob SquarePants SuperSponge - Jelly Fields (GBA) Posy’s video -