This vintage scoreboard is a work-in-progress. And it’s not really a vintage scoreboard, but it’s a work-in-progress trying to make it look like one!
It seems that every year, at least one baseball, football, or other sport has a “retro” game, where everything is like a step back in time. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if I could take our High School’s 2021-era Daktronics 15mm HD 25′ x 14 1/2′ video display, and turn it into our former scoreboard for a night?
Here’s the results of a few hours in Daktronics Content Studio (and a single call to tech support to help load a font into the DMP-8000). The old scoreboard, a scratch-designed Photoshop PNG of it, the field setup in Content Studio, the Display Studio button, and (almost) finished product. Since the actual board pictures were taken, I made sure each number tile background has the dark-grey “off” eggcrate background if a particular “bulb” isn’t lit.
There’s still a little cleanup on the game clock, but I think this will be perfect for a nostalgic feeling on any “retro” ballgame we may have in the future!