How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
- Written by Mark Cipolla, Senior Developer & Content Platform Project Coordinator, The Conversation

At The Conversation, we take table tennis very seriously. After setting up a new ping pong table, and wanting to learn how to use an Arduino, I had a bit of time to build a scoreboard.
An Arduino is a small, programmable device that can take inputs (in this case, two buttons) and control outputs (a LED screen to show the score).