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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em">via <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/" class="f">MAKE Magazine</a> by Matt Mets on 7/29/10</div><br style="display:none">
<p><span style="display:inline"><img alt="diy_fan_speed_display.jpg" src="http://blog.makezine.com/diy_fan_speed_display.jpg" width="600" height="400"></span></p>

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<p>Flick user Arms22 built this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arms22/4824819985/in/pool-69453349@N00">7 Segment LED FAN Revolution Display</a> to monitor the speed of a PC case fan. It's a pretty simple project, but a good introduction to sensing pulse durations and driving multiple seven segment displays. The <a href="http://arms22.blog91.fc2.com/blog-entry-365.html">write-up</a> is in Japanese, or you can find a <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=1&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Farms22.blog91.fc2.com%2Fblog-entry-365.html&amp;sl=ja&amp;tl=en">machine translated version here</a>.</p>
       
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