Case study: Aberdeen FC Three panel sizes, one wall.
Pittodrie's LED boarding runs 246.72 metres around the pitch and was built around the stadium's existing exits, so the run mixes LED panels of three different sizes. USM Boarding gained a new mode to drive it, and on the operator's screen it looks like any other ground.
The wall at Pittodrie.
A wall built around the stadium.
Maxamaze built the boarding around Pittodrie as it stands. Thirteen access gates line up with the stadium's existing exits, which took cabinets in several widths and a bespoke structure, and a 15.68-metre section in front of the team benches is removable, fitted for UEFA fixtures.
The result is a perimeter made of three different LED panel sizes along one pitch.
New work underneath, the same screen on top.
A perimeter is usually a run of identical panels, and the software lays artwork on to it as one long strip. Three panel sizes on one run break that assumption.
So USM Boarding got a separate mode for walls like this one, and its back end was upgraded to place artwork correctly across all three panel dimensions. For the operator nothing changes: the Sequence Designer, the playlists and the cues work exactly as they do at any other ground.
One stadium, several phases.
Maxamaze has modernised Pittodrie in phases: a giant LED screen first, then LED floodlighting, then the boarding. The full installation story is on maxamaze.com.
Does your wall mix panel sizes?
Send us the drawing. Pittodrie runs three on one pitch, and the mode built for it is there for your wall too.