mlb-led-scoreboard VS nhl-led-scoreboard

So this is the instructions for the scoreboard: https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard/wiki

First and foremost, thank you to Tommy Farley’s MLB LED Scoreboard Project for the inspiration + most of the code base. My brother and I have been wanting a CFB equivalent of this forever, so we decided to build our own using a Raspberry Pi Zero and a 32 * 64 LED Matrix. Here is a link to the video demo. If you just so happen to have the same equipment, great! Here is our GitHub repository with the code + instructions on making your own. We’re also looking to sell these in the future (once the semiconductor shortage has hopefully settled down)— if you’re interested please let us know! As always, feedback from you all is great appreciated on how we can make this better.

About $200 in parts, runs out of a Pi.

I help maintain the MLB LED scoreboard project and we don't recommend anything less than 5A for a single matrix, and you're running 6 of them. In fact, the tutorial you linked suggests that you are way underpowering your matrices: https://learn.adafruit.com/32x16-32x32-rgb-led-matrix/powering

quick paste of an old how to file i made however heres the github link gh

I bought the RGB matrix and Raspberry Pi and assembled it. Just followed the process here to get the software running - https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard

You can look at the code/follow steps to build one yourself here: https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard. It's pretty straight forward if you have a technical background but if not it might take you a bit to get up to speed with the raspberry pi.

It supports a bunch of different matrix sizes, requires no assembly, and is free, so developers of software like the MLB LED scoreboard don't have to set up and maintain physical hardware to maintain the project. Consumers of those types of projects get the same benefits so you can run the emulated version without needing to pick up a soldering iron.

The NHL has an API also for example. So an example of how you could use that is this project https://github.com/riffnshred/nhl-led-scoreboard. I have this scoreboard running in my living room. The computer powering the scoreboard is constantly asking the NHL API "hey what's the score of the wings game" and "who scored" and a bunch of other things. The NHL API returns that data to my computer and then my computer renders that information in a scoreboard.

I used the NHL Scoreboard Library with an adafruit RGB shield connect to the GPIO pins. The NHL library uses the API directly from the NHL app so the scores are basically updated instantly. Everything was built on an existing MLB library designed to do the same thing. The library supports the 32x64 matrix out of the box so there’s nothing fancy I had to do there.

So I actually have one of these: https://github.com/riffnshred/nhl-led-scoreboard, and I just added my own script for when a goal is scored.

Thanks! I made the scoreboard myself, using this.

I bought the supplies and built it using the guide here https://github.com/riffnshred/nhl-led-scoreboard

Live scoreboard showing NHL scores.

For those interested in MLB or NHL versions of something similar, it's not too difficult with a bit of Linux knowledge. I used the hardware the MLB version suggested and loaded both MLB and NHL software on my Pi to switch between the two. There are apparently Premier League, NBA and NFL versions as well though I've not yet tried either (I'll be trying NFL and Premier League in a few months though).

see also NHL https://github.com/riffnshred/nhl-led-scoreboard