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Testing an 8 digit 7 segment display with 8 leds and 8 buttons

Objective
show temperatures etc and control via push buttons for headless Pi

I used this llink (with thanks)

# download the latest version of the library, say bcm2835-1.xx.tar.gz, then:
tar zxvf bcm2835-1.xx.tar.gz
cd bcm2835-1.xx
./configure
make
sudo make check
sudo make install

$ wget https://github.com/downloads/mjoldfield/pi-tm1638/pi-tm1638-1.0.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf pi-tm1638-1.0.tar.gz
$ cd pi-tm1638-1.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

examples pre-loaded

• tm1638-hello: The canonical ‘Hello World’ program.
• tm1638-buttons: A simple demonstration which reads the buttons.
• tm1638-clock: A digital clock.

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