And why would they, especially if you want to show just text, having a built-in font has certainly ... did with his digital clock that takes an entire 16×2 LCD to show each single digit.

[David Johnson-Davies] entered big-brain ... character LCD, that one’s arguably even more fun to hack around on just because you’re so limited on going beyond the hard-coded font set.

Watch the video below to learn how and affordable IKEA clock has been transformed into a visual traffic monitor using a couple of LEDs and a little Arduino programming. When the traffic is ...