Features:

• Eight 7-Segment LED Displays with 0.36″ high red digits
• Built-in MAX7219 LED Driver
• SPI 3-wire serial interface for easy hookup to MCU
• Can daisy-chain multiple modules together for larger displays

MAX7219 LED Driver

• The MAX7219 is a popular and flexible 7-segment, bar graph and dot matrix common cathode LED driver that supports many functions for controlling LED displays.
• The driver provides flexible individual LED segment control as well as basic functions such as turning the display ON/OFF and adjusting the LED brightness.
• The MAX7219 communicates with a MCU via a 3-wire SPI bus. Once the display is updated by the MCU, the MAX7219 then takes care of all the work of keeping the display refreshed, so it removes that overhead from the MCU which can be off doing other more important things.