Train/Bus departures board

We should soon be getting something like (but maybe not exactly like) this:

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bus / train notification gizmo, anyone?

Yes please!

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I already have the code!

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There are so many buses and trains, we’ll never fit them all on :smiley:

Actually, you can just about read a 4x4px font, so we could fit 4 lines and 40 columns of characters on a board like that, using alternating colours to prevent the lines bleeding together. That’s enough for 4 trains and 8 buses.

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Conway’s game of life

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I suspect the refresh rate will be far too slow for anything animated :frowning:

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They’d better not add a 5th platform at Herne Hill, that’s all I can say

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I suppose the difficulty of the bus is that there are 4-5 different bus stops nearby…

Is there not an app for this already?

I’ve been looking into it. There’s really only 3 directions we care about: N, S and E (W being blocked by the park. Only the 37 goes East anyway)). Buses may stop at several local stops, but the number of stops we actually care about is low. There’s enough space to show 8 upcoming buses. I think we can work something out.

The alternative is a paged display of course.

Everybody and their dog’s got an app. What they don’t have is a months-long electronics project :smile:

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Am I just a killjoy who doesn’t see the point?

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We could make a special Dermot one I suppose

:stuck_out_tongue:

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It would probably serve well to be a multipurpose thing with a ‘push to view trains, planes and automobiles’ button, maybe?

So added features… Added value propositions.

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Missed my last train by 1 minute last night

Last train of the day alarm?