Image: reddit.com · Video still: I built an Adafruit Matrix Portal & Droplet powered sports ticker because Glance is a ripoff.
A five-panel LED sports ticker on an Adafruit Matrix Portal
A home-made alternative to a commercial sports ticker, fed by a cloud server, built over six weeks with Claude, Codex and ChatGPT by a non-coder.
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The maker wanted a Glance sports ticker but thought the markup too high, so built one from five Waveshare LED matrix panels and an Adafruit Matrix Portal. It runs off a DigitalOcean server using ESPN, US weather service and Yahoo Fantasy data, covering several leagues plus news, weather and fantasy football, with ticker and card modes and local web controls.
They work in sales and had no coding experience; it was built from the ground up with Claude, Codex and ChatGPT over six weeks of trial and error.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built an Adafruit Matrix Portal & Droplet powered sports ticker because Glance is a ripoff.Reddit poster: Osu25Posted
The maker's post on r/esp32.
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