Hi All, not my usual posting about Dashboard, but a more general Node-RED enquiry. Got recently chatting with someone that has setup their own retro arcade locally. Got onto how he'd like to offer High Score tracking within a given session/booking, which made me think someone out there must have tried this with some older arcade machines? A quick Google hasn't turned anything up, but thought I'd ask.
Me and @crxporter
Actually pulled this off (well, a very close related stunt), during a new years eve Mario Kart competition
The use of dashboard was a MASSIVE hit.
It involved a capture card, using masks,
to identify scores after each race using OCR, extracting the data, and adding it to the players total throughout the night.
We then fed the data to dashboard.
The whole system was running in Node RED, Evan the data / capture processes.
It’s worked incredibly well! But the CPU was taxed somewhat! We were using an intel i7 if I can remember rightly
The whole system was autonomous.
- Feeding frames into Node RED via the capture card
- Extracting data (OCR)
- Matching players with the character names
- Tallying up scores
- providing all collected data in dashboard (i of course modified the CSS HARD! to use retro fonts, and styling)
I think there were around 10 players!
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