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This is great! And it made me wonder if bus transport data in my city is available for everyone - we got few displays around, two services/applications that show the current position for each line...
Very cool but I find a pi is overkill for something like this. ESP8266 or ESP32 would work just as well.
They would, but the Pi Zero is a much better UX for people who don't deal with microprocessors on a regular basis. It has SSH, I can get in and look at logs from my desktop, wifi is standard. It all adds up - and for something like this, the power draw is not an issue, and the cost is minimal.
That is super cool. But admittedly when I saw the title i was hoping for a mini version of those massive flipboard signs. Those things are amazing.
That is super cool. But admittedly when I saw the title i was hoping for a mini version of those massive flipboard signs. Those things are amazing.
They're really cool! The original Solari board modules are mega expensive though. I looked at getting some to make a clock, and it probably would have cost me in the thousands. As an indirect result I now have a project in the works to make them. The concept is simple, but building them to be inexpensive is a challenge. Every extra bracket or fastener gets multiplied by _n_ modules.
Right now it's focusing on 40-character flaps (not super convent for clock-making), but it's open-source so I'm sure you could modify it for your purposes with some effort.
Why I can't use my old phones to do this is beyond me. I have one windows phone lying around and a few android phones. Everything is there in a neat package but the manufacturer make it so hard to tinker with them.