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I'm going to convert my living room into a Faraday cage, only bringing in pre downloaded content via hard drive. That should solve this problem. Although I'm not sure my family wil…

We switched to a matrix partly for price, partly for improved reliability. Regular RGB LEDs are a lot cheaper than the WS2812, around 6x cheaper when we made the decision to switch…

Thanks, we've documented how some of our products work, where we get the data, the manufacturing process, and how to write/upload your own code to your board. We should have a coup…

Hi everyone, Richard here, the creator of these traintrackr boards. It's great to see this on the front page! I've been designing PCBs for years, and designed over 250 at last coun…

They recently increased their domain renewal pricing, and as others have said they don't make those prices very easy to find. I moved some .co.uk domains to them a couple of years …

1nce [0] and Hologram [1] offer low cost SIM cards for these type of applications. 1nce for example charges €10 for 500MB of data which lasts 10 years. Assuming you are economical …

The MTA have been behind other rapid transit networks when it comes to making their data available. You can get arrival prediction information on all stops/lines now through their …

I've been looking for something like this for a while to organise photos from my phone, also without success. I hold all my photos locally and then securely sync them to a remote N…

The London boards are for sale in the US - https://www.traintrackr.io/product/ Paris is certainly on the list for future maps.

Hi, Richard here from Traintrackr For the MBTA in Boston we did this, but their system is much less complex than London - https://www.traintrackr.co.uk/product/mbta4

Hi, Richard here from Traintrackr As others have mentioned, there are more trains running than there are station LEDs, so in central London the LEDs would almost always be on, whic…

It looks like AliExpress have put some of their prices up in the last week, so they can "reduce" them for this sale. The sale price seems to match exactly the price I was seeing la…