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The Open · Final
R. Fox −10
Cameron Young −9 · runner-up

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$120K System.$1,600 in ESP32s.

Someone tore out a $120,000 bowling-alley control system and rebuilt it with $1,600 of ESP32 microcontrollers. That ratio is the whole thesis of this site — which itself tears down and rebuilds nightly.