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This is a look into the development of a dialightbulb used for the Dialco 7 Segment product line. Mostly is a simple exercise in PCB design, and reducing cost, but is mostly surrounding mechanical placement, non-standardized parts, and production yields.

With the loss of the RGB 7 Segment offering from Adafruit, there became a distinct lack of RGB 7 Segments. So I took it upon myself to come up with some form of new LED, as it was necessary for a more compact implementation on my Cribbage Board. The goal was to reduce the BOM / Suppliers as much as possible, so the diffuser was also built out of a PCB. The original ideas were to use WS2812-esque LEDs, to be 7 discrete LEDs per segment, but still expose at most 4 pins (Power, Ground, Data, Clock). Additionally using solder and fine pitched headers allows for easy placement / affixing of diffusers as opposed to other mechanisms.