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My next experiment is much simpler. In the theme of funky Japanese watches, I read somewhere about the idea of using RGB 7-segment LEDs to display the time by writing hours, minutes, and seconds to R, G, and B separately — overlaying them in different colors in the same space. On one hand I thought, that’s a neat idea that might work, but on the other hand, I thought, that’s going to be very hard to train your brain to see on something as low resolution as a 7-segment display. So I wrote a quick set of Javascript functions for controlling virtual 7-segment LEDs and tested the idea. And yeah, very hard to read!