Inspiration
My local church hosts a basketball league in the winter in their gymnasium. A few years back they asked for help finding a scoreboard that could work on their screens. Their setup has two screens, one on each side of the courts, with two courts side-by-side. The issue was that to keep the scores straight on the screens, the scores for each court needed to be flipped in relation to each other. Nothing on the market did that so I decided to write an app to do what they needed.
The app worked great but required them to remote desktop into the computer in a balcony hosting the software so they could manage the scores. It also meant that score keeping for two simultaneous games had to be managed by one person.
With the widespread adoption of IoT and the ready availability of great toolsets like the IoT services offered by Azure, an opportunity has come to correct the hassles of that scoreboard system by enabling the scorekeepers to sit at their games and using a Raspberry Pi with some buttons, send events to Azure for processing and updating the scoreboard. In addition, since score events will be timestamped, the possibility of providing some game analytics via a web site adds a new dimension to the system.
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