Hi everyone,
I am building a circuit with a row of 8 alphanumerical 16 led segment displays. Say for example I want it to show 'HAPPY' for 1 second, pause for 0.5 sec, 'BIRTHDAY' for 1 second, pause for 0.5 sec, '<NAME OF PERSON>' for one second, pause for 0.5 sec and repeat the cycle, all these are shown on the same row of the led segment displays.
I plan to keep it extremely simple. So I will set up one circuit to light up HAPPY, one to light up BIRTHDAY and so on.
But how do I get it to flash one word and pause before flashing the second word as described above?
Like switch on circuit 1, then pause, then switch on 2 and so on. Do I need a timer IC or something?
Any suggestions guys? Thank you very much!
I am building a circuit with a row of 8 alphanumerical 16 led segment displays. Say for example I want it to show 'HAPPY' for 1 second, pause for 0.5 sec, 'BIRTHDAY' for 1 second, pause for 0.5 sec, '<NAME OF PERSON>' for one second, pause for 0.5 sec and repeat the cycle, all these are shown on the same row of the led segment displays.
I plan to keep it extremely simple. So I will set up one circuit to light up HAPPY, one to light up BIRTHDAY and so on.
But how do I get it to flash one word and pause before flashing the second word as described above?
Like switch on circuit 1, then pause, then switch on 2 and so on. Do I need a timer IC or something?
Any suggestions guys? Thank you very much!