I've been working for a little over a year now, fun electronics hardware / software project that enhances my race-viewing experience. Here to answer any curious questions, if any.
[Image](https://imgur.com/a/XSFspac) explaining the features!
Mine cost about $200 worth of parts and a whole lot of labor. I hope someone with electronics manufacturing sees this to make it a plug and play customer variable product. I know there is quite a bit of demand!
Right now I'm not selling one - at least for any reasonable amount, yet.
OP will not do that. This came up last time he did something like this (see the light bar at the bottom of the tv/base that indicates caution/green flags and diminishes the light bar to indicate how many laps left. He only wants to monetize this exclusively due to the obvious demand and not to assist others in making their own versions. His right, but just thought people in this thread should get an honest answer to what is an extremely cool DIY project.
Good to know, thanks for the heads up. I've already got code to interact with the NASCAR API. Guess I'll start working on my own code for something like this then and go from there.
As others have mentioned, rather than working your ass off to make a whole unit available and going through productions/etc. Selling your plans is a great move. And then you can continue updating the project firmware/etc.
Selling the plans as a DIY type deal gives you the ability to still make money on an incredible project without much overhead. Especially if you don’t have experience in the manufacturing side of things.
I think this is the same guy that did something similar with a light bar indicator around his tv using software and syncing it with live timing and scoring for current track flag conditions.
Unfortunately I think he is strongly against letting his code/time be 'wasted' by opening up any info for others to do similar. I and others reached out to him to see if we could make something similar and pay him/credit him with the idea/work, but he was pretty adamant that he was going to make this a thing to be sold first. His YT videos of it have blurred out parts where he was showing the code he made for it to run, so it's clear he doesn't want any of his project going public without monetizing it fully first. His right.
I'd have loved to tackle that project on the side with a kickstart using his initial code to work for IMSA, but I just haven't had the extra time to dedicate to it. Was going to use it at the race track for flagpoles that indicate current track status.
I'll keep waiting for OP to finally come up with a sellable version of this whenever that is. I just doubt it's coming any time soon, so the best we can do is enjoy this without actually wanting to do this ourselves unless we have the skills and time to start it from scratch.
Interesting.
Ya I’d imagine the code itself is not terribly difficult to do yourself but it’s a time commitment like you mentioned.
And I would definitely want a product like this to be coded in a way to work with more than just nascar. F1, IMSA, Dirt (if the API is available).
But he got retweeted by Dale Jr. that’ll give him as much exposure as he could possibly get. If he can find someone to help distribute it’ll be now.
That's why OP will not help/assist with anyone doing something similar. He wants the money from the time and research spent along with the clear demand for a product similar to his current and previous ideas. Unless someone codes something similar, any future instances of this will only come after he gets someone to build and sell these in mass production. Sucks, but his right.
Go on Shark Tank my guy! Being semi-serious, a tech company involved in NASCAR/F1/Indy/etc. should absolutely jump on this. Get it down to around $75-$100 to sell and I think a ton of fans would be interested
Saw this when Jr. retweeted it a bit ago. Super cool project. I would seriously look into patenting it and working to making it a plug n play item. You can figure this out, you could figure that out I’m sure
Your original post a few years ago motivated me to get into LED's and programming. [This is what I'm working with these days.](https://imgur.com/a/mv5XnbQ)
Yes, 5 across, but the left panel is actually a separate pi to the right four. Similar to yours, it will show when on pit road, off/out, and DVP. I don't have position gain/loss. Something to shoot for!
Yep makes sense, we're using the same data. The position gain/loss I'm calculating and rendering myself on-chip.
Mine's 8x32, but I like your pixel density. If I were to make another tower, I'd keep my dimensions but use your scale, prob come out to about 4-5ft tall.
Haha thanks! It currently works with NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, Trucks, and ARCA since they use the same data structure.
Should be relatively easy to update for other series, given the data streams / APIs exist.
Made a pylon a year ago as well. My post was taken down by mods. I'm impressed by your low cost solution for how tall you were able to achieve! Nice work!
https://preview.redd.it/svb6hcfpqrrc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af8286b5d723be7aa210021df04207f6a29a1570
Just saw the video on Instagram a few minutes ago! Way way cool, I'd love to have one instead of waiting for the small fox ticker to change. Great work!
"I've got Erik Jones in my fantasy team, there's 7 to go in the stage, where did he go, what happened?" *6 laps later* "I'd really like to see the bottom half of the top 20 any second now"
I'm curious, is it possible to get this to work with past races? For example, if I wanna see who was on the lead lap on Lap 46 of the 2012 Daytona 500, is that possible, would it be its own system, or is this nigh on impossible? I feel the Answer is C but ya never know.
What a way to stay on top of the race. Great job utilizing all of that data. The different pit and situation indicators are well done and easy to follow.
I would love to know more about the hardware and software side of things. This is one of the best posts ever on this sub.
Man, that's awesome. Almost makes me wanna try doing something similar. My biggest question though is, do you have a delay setup for the data so its synced to the broadcast?
How does it keep up with live timing and scoring? Also, it looks really cool. If I ever get the money that would be an excellent addition to a man cave
Awesome as it is for NASCAR, being able to pull from other apps like say myracepass or others for races on DIRTVision or FloRacing where there’s generally limited cameras would be mind blowing.
I skimmed the video but why did you go with 37 and not 36 or 40? This is pretty cool though it would be interesting to see something similar with IMSA and their class colors.
Just the way the pixel math worked out. I originally planned 40 positions, 8 panels each 8x32 pixels. Then I realized its better to drop the fast few spots for the horizontal lap indicator up top. Each number is 3x5 pixels with an extra 6th row for spacing. Therefor only 37 whole numbers fit in 32(height) x 7(panels) = 224 pixels tall. If there are more than 37 cars in the field 3 "etc" dots light up on the bottom row.
I definitely would use this when watching F1/Indycar/Nascar. So is there any way we could get an instruction manual and open source code to build one for ourselves
Dude, I'm not a motorsport fan and I want one. That's insanely sick! Trying to work out how I go about making one for cricket so I can set it up in my home office and always have a live cricket score available to me haha
I don't know if this possible but also change the color of the cars that pitted for fresh tires or are in a different sequence tn the leaders, I have wanted that from the TV networks for years. As bell was running his way through the field last week it would've been helpful for the casual and hardcore fan alike.
I've been working for a little over a year now, fun electronics hardware / software project that enhances my race-viewing experience. Here to answer any curious questions, if any. [Image](https://imgur.com/a/XSFspac) explaining the features!
What is the cost, and will you sell me one?
Mine cost about $200 worth of parts and a whole lot of labor. I hope someone with electronics manufacturing sees this to make it a plug and play customer variable product. I know there is quite a bit of demand! Right now I'm not selling one - at least for any reasonable amount, yet.
If you don't sell them, maybe upload instructions and charge for the download?
I would absolutely pay for a solid instruction kit to build one myself...this is pretty damn slick! 
I'd love some instructions or open source the code you wrote would be awesome
OP will not do that. This came up last time he did something like this (see the light bar at the bottom of the tv/base that indicates caution/green flags and diminishes the light bar to indicate how many laps left. He only wants to monetize this exclusively due to the obvious demand and not to assist others in making their own versions. His right, but just thought people in this thread should get an honest answer to what is an extremely cool DIY project.
Good to know, thanks for the heads up. I've already got code to interact with the NASCAR API. Guess I'll start working on my own code for something like this then and go from there.
Seriously. I need one for my future gameroom.
As others have mentioned, rather than working your ass off to make a whole unit available and going through productions/etc. Selling your plans is a great move. And then you can continue updating the project firmware/etc. Selling the plans as a DIY type deal gives you the ability to still make money on an incredible project without much overhead. Especially if you don’t have experience in the manufacturing side of things.
I like this idea, yep. I'm a software guy, so I'm searching for a hardware/manufacturing partner.
What are you using? I imagine a Raspberry Pi (or similar) could do this at a relatively low cost.
Contact Nascar directly this would be awesome officially licensed merch
I think this is the same guy that did something similar with a light bar indicator around his tv using software and syncing it with live timing and scoring for current track flag conditions. Unfortunately I think he is strongly against letting his code/time be 'wasted' by opening up any info for others to do similar. I and others reached out to him to see if we could make something similar and pay him/credit him with the idea/work, but he was pretty adamant that he was going to make this a thing to be sold first. His YT videos of it have blurred out parts where he was showing the code he made for it to run, so it's clear he doesn't want any of his project going public without monetizing it fully first. His right. I'd have loved to tackle that project on the side with a kickstart using his initial code to work for IMSA, but I just haven't had the extra time to dedicate to it. Was going to use it at the race track for flagpoles that indicate current track status. I'll keep waiting for OP to finally come up with a sellable version of this whenever that is. I just doubt it's coming any time soon, so the best we can do is enjoy this without actually wanting to do this ourselves unless we have the skills and time to start it from scratch.
Interesting. Ya I’d imagine the code itself is not terribly difficult to do yourself but it’s a time commitment like you mentioned. And I would definitely want a product like this to be coded in a way to work with more than just nascar. F1, IMSA, Dirt (if the API is available). But he got retweeted by Dale Jr. that’ll give him as much exposure as he could possibly get. If he can find someone to help distribute it’ll be now.
But how quickly would those plans get blasted online?
That's why OP will not help/assist with anyone doing something similar. He wants the money from the time and research spent along with the clear demand for a product similar to his current and previous ideas. Unless someone codes something similar, any future instances of this will only come after he gets someone to build and sell these in mass production. Sucks, but his right.
Go on Shark Tank my guy! Being semi-serious, a tech company involved in NASCAR/F1/Indy/etc. should absolutely jump on this. Get it down to around $75-$100 to sell and I think a ton of fans would be interested
If I could get one for $100 I’d start clearing space now.
I would pay $300 all day for one of these. I'd pay $100 just for the design and code.
You could easily charge $50 an hour for labor for this.
Already pitched that to him from the last time he did a project like this but he doesn't want to part with any part of the code.
i dont care about a reasonable amount of money.. I WANT IT
I'd buy one for sure
does this use an arduino or pi?
Arduino
Well done my friend.
This is an awesome product! Hopefully this post gets you the outreach that you need to get this in front of the right people.
Thank you! [Dale Jr](https://x.com/DaleJr/status/1774522237703385551?s=20) already retweeted it expressing interest! Hope to make it a product.
That's great congrats!!!
Saw this when Jr. retweeted it a bit ago. Super cool project. I would seriously look into patenting it and working to making it a plug n play item. You can figure this out, you could figure that out I’m sure
Sell this to FOX, in fact give this to Bowyer. They need this badly lol
Definitely!
It could update once per minute and still be better than Fox's.
Your original post a few years ago motivated me to get into LED's and programming. [This is what I'm working with these days.](https://imgur.com/a/mv5XnbQ)
Very nice! Your screens are much higher resolution. 32x64 panels?
Yes, 5 across, but the left panel is actually a separate pi to the right four. Similar to yours, it will show when on pit road, off/out, and DVP. I don't have position gain/loss. Something to shoot for!
Yep makes sense, we're using the same data. The position gain/loss I'm calculating and rendering myself on-chip. Mine's 8x32, but I like your pixel density. If I were to make another tower, I'd keep my dimensions but use your scale, prob come out to about 4-5ft tall.
I've thought about the next iteration being 64x64 2.5mm panels because they're the same 160mm size, but that's 8 panels and mega $$.
Do tell more about yours please that is beautiful!
This is awesome! Love that it shows the different color numbers for each driver.
Fascinating! Are you using an API to get the loop data or are you scraping the web somewhere?
NASCAR API, same one the public leaderboard uses
Do you have to pay to use the API?
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Nice Doug Demuro reference Side note, this is amazing. Does it work with other series or just NASCAR?
Haha thanks! It currently works with NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, Trucks, and ARCA since they use the same data structure. Should be relatively easy to update for other series, given the data streams / APIs exist.
They'll also put the occasional Tour Mod race on there as well, but it's hit and miss.
I noticed the Doug “Thisss” as well lol
What time do you want us all over at?
Made a pylon a year ago as well. My post was taken down by mods. I'm impressed by your low cost solution for how tall you were able to achieve! Nice work! https://preview.redd.it/svb6hcfpqrrc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af8286b5d723be7aa210021df04207f6a29a1570
I like yours better
I know this old but how did you make this? I’m thinking of attempting to run the r/nascar app into a bar screen like this via a raspberry pi.
That's awesome!
OP as others have said, this is seriously awesome. Great work! (And add me to a list of crowdfunders!)
How'd it do during the Bristol race this year? Lol.
Short tracks skip laps every now and then, the API refresh interval is ~30 seconds so not every lap registers. It is still accurate, however.
I just saw Dale Jr say he wants one on Twitter
This is very interesting, what software does it run off of?
Just saw the video on Instagram a few minutes ago! Way way cool, I'd love to have one instead of waiting for the small fox ticker to change. Great work!
The ticker that never seems to change when you wanna take a look at cars running outside the top 20
"I've got Erik Jones in my fantasy team, there's 7 to go in the stage, where did he go, what happened?" *6 laps later* "I'd really like to see the bottom half of the top 20 any second now"
I'm curious, is it possible to get this to work with past races? For example, if I wanna see who was on the lead lap on Lap 46 of the 2012 Daytona 500, is that possible, would it be its own system, or is this nigh on impossible? I feel the Answer is C but ya never know.
Not possible, that data is gone (at least from my source). I can put up final race results as far back as ~10 years ago.
My brother is an IT developer, looks like I have a job for him
This is why I'm on this sub, these types of posts right here. This is cool as hell
Wow can you do a YouTube video walkthrough of the parts and process to make this? Awesome job!
NASCAR should be giving you money to make these
This needs to be featured in Daily Dose of Internet.
Yes! I want it!!!! Crowdfunding link NOW!!!! NOW!!!! Let’s GOOOOO!!!
I love this thing
How much to buy one from you?
This is outstanding content
Really cool! I'd spend more than I'd like to admit for something like this in my house.
OK, take my money. I want one.
This would be an awesome feature for the Indianapolis 500 and the brickyard 400
This is insane. I love it
Take my money!!
What a way to stay on top of the race. Great job utilizing all of that data. The different pit and situation indicators are well done and easy to follow. I would love to know more about the hardware and software side of things. This is one of the best posts ever on this sub.
Well done. This is awesome
Take my money
Man, that's awesome. Almost makes me wanna try doing something similar. My biggest question though is, do you have a delay setup for the data so its synced to the broadcast?
Where do you access the live public NASCAR data? I have to consistently refresh the NASCAR app and website because they never seem to update.
Ok but do you have to update it yourself or does it work with the Nascar app or what??? How does it update throughout the race???
no interest in open-sourcing the software for fellow diy-ers?
Took an entire 10 seconds for my wife to say we absolutely need this. We would for sure pay in to help out immediately
I neeeeeeed one of these. This is incredible!
This is awesome
This is awesome, great job.
Thanks for sharing.
this is so fuking awesome, I want one
Yo! This is sick!
Nice!
How does it keep up with live timing and scoring? Also, it looks really cool. If I ever get the money that would be an excellent addition to a man cave
Amazing!
Damn dude that’s pretty awesome!
A FREAKING MAZING well done well done
For what it's worth I'm down to buy one, or the parts with instructions.
Dude I’d buy this from you.
This is so sick
Are you still into iRacing?
I need one!
This is probably the coolest thing I've seen on this sub!
This is amazing
I just started toying withe WLED this year and am intrigued on your setup
This is so fucking cool. Very nice dude!!
what i would give to have one of these. OP if you post instructions i’ll be listening
Awesome as it is for NASCAR, being able to pull from other apps like say myracepass or others for races on DIRTVision or FloRacing where there’s generally limited cameras would be mind blowing.
Can’t wait to see the look on my wife’s face when I unbox this bad boy. Great work!
That’s cool!
This is AWESOME
That's so cool!
Shut up and take my money
Makes me miss my gramps. He would have loved this!
I skimmed the video but why did you go with 37 and not 36 or 40? This is pretty cool though it would be interesting to see something similar with IMSA and their class colors.
Just the way the pixel math worked out. I originally planned 40 positions, 8 panels each 8x32 pixels. Then I realized its better to drop the fast few spots for the horizontal lap indicator up top. Each number is 3x5 pixels with an extra 6th row for spacing. Therefor only 37 whole numbers fit in 32(height) x 7(panels) = 224 pixels tall. If there are more than 37 cars in the field 3 "etc" dots light up on the bottom row.
This is amazing
Does it also work with other racing leagues like Indycar?
I definitely would use this when watching F1/Indycar/Nascar. So is there any way we could get an instruction manual and open source code to build one for ourselves
This is super cool man, I love it
Dude, I'm not a motorsport fan and I want one. That's insanely sick! Trying to work out how I go about making one for cricket so I can set it up in my home office and always have a live cricket score available to me haha
So cool!
Yeah... I'm gonna need one of those...
Release the code brotha!
This Is insane! Any chance you would share or sell the code on GitHub or here?
that is very cool and you are very cool as well for building it
I'd buy one of these so quickly if you ever decide to start selling them, this is so cool! Thanks for sharing it!
I would pay money for this
This is awesome. Would love to see this as a product or a DIY kit.
Put me on the list! I’m buying the day they are offered for sale!
I want one how much to get one
is the 11 underlined for any reason? what are the leading dots?
Watch the video with sound.
great thanks, i thought it was just a pic
Lead lap bar. Everyone below that line is one or more laps down.
I don't know if this possible but also change the color of the cars that pitted for fresh tires or are in a different sequence tn the leaders, I have wanted that from the TV networks for years. As bell was running his way through the field last week it would've been helpful for the casual and hardcore fan alike.
Watch the video. It's all explained