Can you explain how you use these ESP32 devices for scoreboard data extraction and what they replaced?
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He built Python programs with AI assistance that run on ESP32 microcontrollers to extract clock, score, down, and distance data from scoreboard serial feeds; five units cost approximately $200 and replaced a $1,500 Daktronics hardware device.
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41:39little things on my desk right here these are just these are little esp32 devices um I had built a, I had written a Python program to extract data from our scoreboards. And it worked and it was fine. But then I found out about these things and I was like, oh, if I could, if I could run it on these things, then I don't have to run it on my streaming computer.
42:05It frees up resources. Like it would just be simpler. And so with AI, I was just, I literally said, hey, here's this thing I wrote. can we make it run in this other thing and it was like sure let's do that and we did it and i i put it and this is these are this is on my desk right now number four and five of the ones i've built
42:25and um these essentially for me replace a 1500 piece of hardware from daktronics and so for uh 200 bucks i've got five of them um and so tell me how they interact with this is scoreboard management? Yeah. So all the score, they get the data, the clock and the score and down in distance and all that stuff. And there's, they plug into the back of the controller for that. And there's
42:54a serial feed that comes out of it. And none of these. And so you don't need another set of hands logging all this data, which is critical to the game and changes constantly during it. You just get a feed and there it is. You're leaving it to the refs to get it right on the the scoreboard and then you're getting that and broadcasting it yep yep absolutely yeah yeah
43:15between that and um you know i i mentioned earlier that we i had originally wanted some rcps to remotely control um the cameras and i didn't get this done for our first two games but um i built this um with ai and it just it kind of looks like an rcp and it kind of looks like you you're a little shading station right there and what this allows me to do is uh remotely
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