But are stencils good for anything else? It turns out they are, if you’ve got some plain old 8×8 LED matrix displays you want to jazz up a bit. In this case, [upir]’s displays were of the ...

These Plessey dot-matrix displays are a perfect example of that. We’re not sure where [Michael] scored these displays, but they look fantastic. Each 8-pin DIP has two 5×7-matrix, high ...

Passive monochrome and color graphics displays were used in the first laptops, and they are still used as an alternative to active matrix. Passive matrix is less costly because transistors are ...