Each of the seven segments is a single 0201 LED. Six I/O lines and three resistors are required to operate each module. To demonstrate the operation of his tiny display modules, Sam also created ...

The Surface Mounted Devices (SMD) manufacturing process encapsulates one red chip, one green chip, and one blue chip into a small ... much smaller pixel pitches than Dual Inline Package (DIP) LED ...

While many of us got our start in the age of through-hole PCBs, this size reduction has led to more and more projects that need the use of surface-mount components and their unique set of tools.