OpenScoreboard
Live Scores
OpenScoreboard fetches live scores for hockey, basketball, baseball and football, pro and college, showing everything going on in the league all the time. Check when games start, track scores and power plays, and see every ball, strike, out and runner on base. OpenScoreboard can focus on your favorite teams so that you never miss a moment.
Live Golf Standings
Keep an eye on the leaders for every tournament.
Live Formula 1
Follow every race with the running order, the gaps, and the lap count.
Extras
Whether it's the offseason or there are no games on, OpenScoreboard can show a clock or the weather. It switches over on its own when nothing you follow is playing, and quiet hours turn it off overnight.
OpenScoreboard App
The OpenScoreboard app for iOS and Android lets you set up a scoreboard, pick your favorite teams, choose what's on the board, or turn it off and on from anywhere.
Buy or Build Your Own
Due to parts shortages, I'm not actively building any Scoreboards. If you want to get on the waitlist to purchase a Scoreboard for $250, email me at mark.schmidt@hey.com
If you'd prefer to Do It Yourself, great news: OpenScoreboard's source is public under the PolyForm Noncommercial License, so you can build your own OpenScoreboard and customize it to do whatever you want for personal use. You can find more info here
Background & History
For Valentine’s Day 2019, I used this excellent open source guide to make an MLB Scoreboard for my St. Louis sports fanatic wife. While she loves the Cardinals, her one true love is the St. Louis Blues. So, when she asked if there was any way I could get her scoreboard to show hockey in addition to baseball, I gave it a shot. She loved it, and asked if this was something I could possibly make and sell to other people. What started as a quick weekend project turned into a year long learning experience pulling in all my software engineering skills.
To turn this into a real product, I would have to make it mom and dad friendly—no need to solder anything, no need to configure things, update packages, or anything remotely technical. I needed to 3D print an enclosure, wire up a button, and write thousands of lines of code to support the onboarding process.
This was a great learning opportunity for me—I learned how to use Flutter to make a cross platform controller app, how to use AWS and GraphQL to host a Scoreboard API, and put dozens of other skills to the test to make a final product that I’m very proud of.
Big thank yous to:
- The MLB LED Scoreboard project, which is the inspiration for this project
- Westmont Public Library for dealing with all of my 3D printing requests
- Richard Wendel, for helping me with Electrical Engineering 101
- Jack Schmidt, for designing logos/iconography and helping me make the app look much better
- Jamie Schmidt, for supporting me and encouraging me to bring this project to completion