Sun Devil Stadium holds 50,000+ fans on football Saturdays. The scoreboard system runs interactive games during home games, driven by stadium microphones and video feeds piped through an AWS backend, with the games rendered on the scoreboard itself.
I worked on the Angular frontend for some of the games. The reason this one is here is the experience, not the scope.
A couple of the games we built
- A celebrity face-match game. Fans in the stadium got matched in real time against their celebrity lookalikes from the video feed, with the match percentage displayed on the scoreboard.
- A noise game. We'd show up at home games early and set up microphones on the east, north, west, and south sides of the stadium. The system read real-time sound levels from each side and put the loudest one up on the board.
What made it memorable
Getting to home games early to help set up the rigs, all-access passes for the press box and the sidelines, the kind of on-field involvement most engineering work doesn't let you have. Simple responsibilities, real proximity to the school. Memorable corner of the job.