Chapter 4: Surface Return

Day 20: Creative Day 4

Creative Day! Use 7-segment displays, shift registers, rotary encoders, and display drivers from Week 4 to build your own display project — a counter, timer, or navigation readout.

Day 20: Creative Day 4 - Display Project

Creative Days are free-build days. No new mission, no new wiring diagram — today the lab is yours. Take the components and skills you’ve unlocked so far and build something of your own design.

Show the community

Built something today? Put it in the Workshop.

Community Projects is where makers share their real builds — photos, a short write-up, and how it works. Your Creative Day build belongs there (yes, even a simple one).

Upload your project →Browse the Workshop

A lesson from 30 Days Lost in Space (31 filmed lessons (Day 0 to Day 30), about 10 hours of video), taught by Dr. Greg Lyzenga, a Harvey Mudd College physics professor and NASA JPL scientist.

The video lessons are free to watch. Get the kit at craftingtable.com — $60 (sale price through November 1, 2026; regularly $97). 30-day returns.