The starting point here is simple and appealing: a scrolling sports ticker run by a Raspberry Pi, showing hockey, basketball, baseball, college football, college hockey and NFL matchups as a rolling strip of scores and logos. That is the kind of build that makes a room feel like a sports bar, and the maker has pulled it off with real polish.
The hardware side is well thought out. Four 128x64 P2.5 panels sit in a custom printed case designed in Fusion, giving a 1280mm total width split into 320mm segments. A Raspberry Pi 4B with 4GB drives the panels through an Adafruit Triple LED Matrix Bonnet. Power comes from a Meanwell LRS-200-5 for the panels and a separate RS-15-5 for the Pi, with WAGO connectors used in the original design. Data comes from the ESPN API, and watching a game while recording confirmed the scores updated in real time. The ticker also ran overnight without getting kicked out of the data source, which strikes me as a solid stability result.
Two details stand out to me. The maker swapped the plain Final label for F/OT or F/SO where the game calls for it, and that attention to how fans actually read scores is a nice touch. The transition animation, where the sports box takes over the previous mode, is clearly a point of pride. The flicker that appeared in the recording turned out to be a phone artifact, and the maker says the display looks really good in person.
There is still work ahead. The extra-innings F/10 and F/11 labels have not been validated yet, more display modes remain to be implemented, and the repository and Bill of Materials are not public. Also planned are a phone app, an audio spectrum mode with a USB microphone already added, plus an aquarium screensaver and a wave motion display.