How-to Tuesday: Hacking a MAKE gift subscription card

This week I am going to show you how to hack a MAKE gift subscription card. Actually, it's showing you how to interface a 7-segment display with an Arduino. I just happened to make it into a gift card subscription.

My idea was to give a MAKE subscription to a friend. Actually, I am giving them an Arduino along with the subscription. What a great combination! As a final part of the gift, I am making a post on how to program the 7-segment display to help them get started.

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[secpd]

Yeah, my "Holiday break" has been since the middle of November, when I got laid off. :-(

[jodex96]

Now it's 2009!

[Radioactivety]

@palauskas now it's 2012!!!!!!!!!!

[palauskas]

@jodex96 NOW ITS 2011 !!!!!!! xD

[bears7777777]

i want one, can you make me one? i am 14 and i like to make things out of microcontrollers but right now i don't have the money or a job.

[crafty25936]

@neighbor98 2011 TOMOROW :D

[crafty25936]

@neighbor98 its 201 tomorow :D

[neighbor98]

@jodex96 now it's 2010!

[NiekProductions]

7 segment LED BORED

[spudnik961]

3...2...1...HAPPY NEW YEAR...wait...HOLY SH$T BOOM

[RedRavenProductions]

It would be cool if it were a countdown.

[BambooPanda13]

Holy cow the bomb squad would be at my house and I would be far away, that crap looks like a bomb, that is not even cool...lol I don't think my friends want to open gifts that look like bombs...