Seven Segment Display 2007
This programmable output device is fashioned from four-foot fluorescent light fixtures arranged in the shape of seven-segment LEDs. It is driven by an Atmel AVR processor and custom-designed control cicuitry. The sculpture is an electronic voice installed on the gallery wall, striving to communicate through fractured, disjointed text. Larger than the viewer's body (ten feet tall by sixty feet long) it fluctuates between legible display and sensory experience. The expressive limitations of the typographic form are of particular interest—the display requires perceptual flexibility for both the writer and the reader—occasioning novel communication strategies in the same manner as they have evolved for SMS, chat, 1337 speak, and calculator writing. This version was implemented with ten seven-segment characters.
Installation shots and example lowercase font.
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Software mock-up, 12 character display
Click in the applet window to begin. Type up to 12 characters, and hit ENTER to see that string as it would be displayed on the seven-segment display.
source code
(built with Processing)