Even if surface-mount skills aren’t in your repertoire, chances are pretty good that most of us are at least familiar with SMD stencils ... got some plain old 8×8 LED matrix displays you ...
Inspired by a prank tweet, [Sam Ettinger] endeavored to create an SMD seven-segment display ... Each of the seven segments is a single 0201 LED. Six I/O lines and three resistors are required ...