Vibe-code a physical live scoreboard for my son's 10th birthday
A dad who had never built more than blinking lights and a dog-bark detector decided the commercial live MLB scoreboard was too expensive for what it did and built his own as his son's 10th-birthday gift - a physical product, not an app. Over months of nights and weekends with AI/the AI and the AI he went from concept to web preview to a parts list and a 3D-printed case screwed into the back; the finished board shows live MLB and NFL scores, pulls his son's own baseball games and practice schedule from GameChanger, runs arcade games, and has a quiet mode that shuts it down after bedtime.
How it works
- Scope the concept and a web preview with AI/the AI and the AI
- Derive the parts list
- 3D-print a case that screws into the back
- Wire live MLB and NFL score feeds
- Integrate GameChanger for his son's games and practices
- Add arcade games and a night-time quiet mode
- Gift it for the 10th birthday
Why it’s worth knowing
The vibe-coding crossed the screen: the deliverable is a physical object on a kid's wall that knows his own practice schedule and puts itself to sleep at night.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗