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Creating an IoT Baseball Scoreboard with Python
By Christian Wyglendowski

This talk covers the intersection of hardware, software, peanuts and cracker jacks. I'll share how I built an IoT baseball scoreboard using readily available hardware and software written in Python. I hope anyone who attends this talk will be entertained, learn some new things and leave feeling empowered to make their own IoT (field of) dreams come true.

Sunday 4:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. in Hays Cape

This talk will cover the hardware, code and libraries I used to build a digital baseball scoreboard for tracking my favorite MLB team. If sports aren't your thing, that's OK - there will be plenty of information applicable to other IoT/maker projects.

I'll cover use of the threading, queue and sched modules from the standard library. I'll also share how I used the mlbgame and gpiozero libraries. Finally, as a novice hardware hacker myself, I'll share what I've learned about hardware hacking including soldering tips, useful equipment, etc.

  • The Scoreboard Project
  • 7-segment displays
  • Shift registers
  • Transistors and multiplexing
  • Soldering
  • Raspberry Pi Zero W and gpiozero
  • MLB API and the mlbgame package
  • sched, threading and queue(s) (oh my!)
  • Opening Day
  • Future Directions

Christian Wyglendowski

I've been programming with Python for around 15 years. I enjoy spending time with my family, running, vegetable gardening, playing guitar, and hacking on hardware related projects.

For my day job, I work on a popular mobile application for Android phones.

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