> That thought had not occurred to me.  Probably a good thing.
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> 7 thin strips, a dot on each, being one vertical line.  5 strips for a
> typical display, so 35 pieces.  A clock needs at least 4 displays, so that's
> 4 x 5 x 7, or 140 pieces.  With LEDs @ 20mA, that's pushing 3 amps.
> 
> It's hard to cut thin strips of glass, 5mm should be ok.  Assembled would be
> 35 x 25mm per 'number'.
> 
> Bi-colour can be done by having a LED at each end of the glass strip (window
> glass is 3mm, for pictures it's 2mm).  Gosh, where would I find a 2 x 5mm
> LED?
> 
> I'll add it to the pile.  Don't expect much progress  :)
> 
> Tony
> 

you could probably hack something up with 5+7 sheets.
etch lines rather than dots and activate a horizontal + vertical line at the
same time to make the "dot" light up (brighter than the rest of the line).
scan through them and you should be done, It would be funky to see anyway.
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