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| Necro:
I've been tracking this (Fantasy Scoreboards, http://fantasyscoreboards.com/) for awhile, but $350 is WAY out of my price range for something like this. Even the Bud 'goal light' seems a bit ridiculously priced for what it is (http://www.budredlights.com/). Wondering if anyone's done something similar for the game room/home bar/etc. or know resources describing how to? I have an Arduino I could use for it, just need some guidance since I'm relatively "green" on that front. :) |
| Howard_Casto:
It's difficult to explain how to do because how you go about it would vary greatly depending upon the hardware you use to build it. Basically you set pins high or low to set the various scores, (you might need a library if you use 7-segment displays) make the Arduino show up as a serial device.... send data to it and update the I/O accordingly. Clear as mud right? That being said, large digits like that can be costly, so you may want to roll your own. |
| Necro:
Honestly, I felt like the actual display itself would be the easy part - I'm assuming there's some library that you could use for setting outputs based on a number or output text, then have it display on LEDs wired up behind painted plexi or similar. What really has me baffled is getting the scores, time, etc., and then parsing that out. Which, all in all, was why I was hoping someone had done SOMETHING similar I could hack away at to get to do what I wanted. :) |
| Howard_Casto:
Do you mean you don't know how to pull scores off of sports websites ect, or do you mean you don't know how to parse data on the Arduino? |
| Necro:
...yes. :) If I had an example, I could figure it out I think but...honestly...totally fresh on this stuff. Arduino especially. :) |
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