3 posts tagged with "zebra"

Part 1 explained the vision. Part 2 covered the hardware. Now for the software - the Dart monorepo, Docker setup, and how we turned a stream of RFID events into a working game.

Part 1 covered the what and the why. This is part two of three - and this one is all hardware. Part three will be the software equivalent: the Dart backend, Docker setup, and Flutter app.

Here we go under the bonnet of the physical stack - the RFID reader, the industrial camera, the network they sit on, and how data moves from the track into the backend.

What happens when you use enterprise hardware and a modern software stack to make a toy smart? We found out.

This project started with a simple idea - take a Scalextric track and connect it to some Zebra hardware to show off its capabilities. We went one step further and built a fully deployed experience - one that tracks every lap with millisecond precision, captures a photo as the car crosses the line, and creates a genuinely addictive game. Every technical decision had a player-facing reason. We weren't trying to make it work - we were trying to make it feel like something more.