The final countdown

After countless counter content, there's only one loose end left: what happened to those cute little LCD displays? After about a month and a half of wandering around the world, they finally arrived. I had to straighten each of their pins one by one because the journey had clearly been rough on them, but other than that, they seemed perfectly healthy. Time to finally do something with them. How does an LCD work? No idea, it must be magic. But after all the adventures, I believe I can at least explain how to make them work. Well, this particular panel, anyway. I have no idea how much of this carries over to other LCDs. The LED display we used previously had 3 COM pins and 7 segment pins (eight if we count the dot as well, but we ignored that). This LCD has 4 COM pins and 6 segment pins, which already suggests that the COM pins are no longer mapped one-to-one with the digits. Fortunately, there's a table that tells us exactly how the two relate. COM / Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 COM1 3D 2D…