--- title: Snake On A Seven-Segment Display Is Gloriously Bad description: [José Luis Monteiro] and his father worked on a way to play Snake on a seven-segment LED display salvaged from an old DVD player. Each segment can stand in for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/snake-on-a-seven-segment-display-is-gloriously-bad-pd3bvuk8i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Snake On A Seven-Segment Display Is Gloriously Bad | daily.dev og:description: [José Luis Monteiro] and his father worked on a way to play Snake on a seven-segment LED display salvaged from an old DVD player. Each segment can stand in for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/snake-on-a-seven-segment-display-is-gloriously-bad-pd3bvuk8i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Pd3BvUk8I.png og:image:alt: Snake On A Seven-Segment Display Is Gloriously Bad og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Snake On A Seven-Segment Display Is Gloriously Bad **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary [José Luis Monteiro] and his father worked on a way to play Snake on a seven-segment LED display salvaged from an old DVD player. Each segment can stand in for a piece of the growing snake, using the display's roughly rectangular grid layout. The food is identical to one of the snake's own segments, so it quickly becomes visually confusing, though the opening moments work well. The project's documentation, source code and video serve as a good primer on reverse engineering this type of display. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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