Seven segment

Simple Rust driver for 7-segment displays

About

This is a driver (encoder) for 7-segment displays. It's implemented on top of embedded-hal, so you can use it on any platform that has pins with embedded_hal::OutputPin implemented.

The driver is very simple, only supports displays that connect directly using seven pins such as SA52-11EWA and doesn't try to do anything clever like setting all pins at once. It supports both common anode and common cathode displays.

Notes for upgrading from 0.1 to 0.2

While the change in 0.2 is strictly speaking Semver-breaking, the changes you need to do should be trivial. The breaking difference is use of embedded HAL v2 API with fallible PIN operations. As a result, set method now returns Result<(), Error> instead of ().

If you feed it pins implementing the old API, it still works thanks to the blanket impl and the resulting Error will be uninhabited, so you can use .unwrap_or_else(|e| match e {}) to correctly avoid the unused result warning.

However, in order to use the full power of the new version, you should handle the errors properly, e.g. using the ? operator. The implementation requires that Error types of all output pins are the same. If this is limiting to you, you can use a wrapper for the pins to convert the errors into a single type. (e.g. an enum)

License

MITNFA