Multiplexed display

A multiplexed display is like a group of different toys that you can play with all at once. Imagine you have five different toys that you want to play with, but you only have one set of eyes to look at them. What can you do?

Well, you could play with one toy for a little bit, then put it down and pick up another toy to play with for a little bit, and so on. But that might get boring really quickly!

A better way to play with all your toys at the same time is to set them up on a rotating display that shows each toy very quickly, over and over again. So the toy display might show you the first toy for just a tiny little bit, then switch to the second toy for another tiny little bit, and keep going back and forth between all the toys super quickly.

This way, even though you only have one set of eyes, it looks like you're watching all the toys at the same time! It's like magic!

A multiplexed display works the same way, but instead of toys, you're looking at tiny lights or pixels on a screen. The screen is set up in a special way so that each pixel only lights up for a tiny little bit, and then it switches over to the next pixel right away.

This happens so fast that your eyes can't even tell that the pixels are turning on and off. All you see is a picture or a video playing on the screen, like it was there all along!

So, that's what a multiplexed display is: a special way of showing lots of tiny little lights or pixels on a screen, by switching between them super quickly so that it looks like they're all on at the same time. It's really cool, and it's how most modern TV screens and computer monitors work!