How are you hiding the cable in the last photo or is it battery powered?
Realtime BART Arrival Display
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#22Those are the projects I love and get inspired by. I love the execution and the level of detail, making it feel like a true miniature signage on the station.
Well done and what a lovely spirit.
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#23How are you hiding the cable in the last photo or is it battery powered?
They're running a USB-C cable through the wall behind, down thought the wall, to a power brick below.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1osvbhn/mini_bart_re...
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#24Cool! Hey I have a feature request: Could you add the robotic voices? https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20090309
When Noisebridge was new, I wrote a program to get the BART arrival times and play them (in a synthesized voice as close as I could find to the BART one, though clearly not the same one) through the loudspeakers at the space during the last half hour or so of BART service every night. Unfortunately, other people found this annoying, so it was disabled very quickly.
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#25Amazing. I want one. Keep up the great work!
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#26Cool project and very nicely done!! claps. You know what, I used to plan my leaving from home based on the timings at the station, but soon I realized that it is not worth it. It is not because trains are not sticking to the time table. Just randomly starting at your own comfort eliminates the anxiety that comes with planning. Your average wait time might increase to half of the interval between the trains, but that…
I built a small hardware device to show the departure time of the tram next to my house, because here in Finland it gets cold in winter. Mostly the winter isn't super-cold, something like -10°C/14°F, but there are weeks where it will be -20°C/-4°F and then there's a big difference between waiting at the tram stop for 1 minute or 7 minutes.
As someone who lives in England seeing -10C described as “not super cold” is interesting, I guess perception of these things varies a lot depending on where you live and how prepared you are
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#27Cool project and very nicely done!! claps. You know what, I used to plan my leaving from home based on the timings at the station, but soon I realized that it is not worth it. It is not because trains are not sticking to the time table. Just randomly starting at your own comfort eliminates the anxiety that comes with planning. Your average wait time might increase to half of the interval between the trains, but that…
I look when getting a bus/train if the frequency is less than ~one every ten minutes. I never look for trams (those are ~always headway <10 mins for the routes I use).
Different people have different thresholds. some go as high as 12. it is generally excepted that until you get to 7 most people are checking the schedule before leaving the door. there is noticable bumbs in ridership down to 5 minutes (not always enough to pay for the costs of that much service) so that should be the goal if a system can do it.
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#28Cool project and very nicely done!! claps. You know what, I used to plan my leaving from home based on the timings at the station, but soon I realized that it is not worth it. It is not because trains are not sticking to the time table. Just randomly starting at your own comfort eliminates the anxiety that comes with planning. Your average wait time might increase to half of the interval between the trains, but that…
Quick note your average wait time might increase to more than half the interval, thanks to the Waiting Time Paradox, a transportation manifestation of the Inspection Paradox.
https://medium.com/data-science/the-inspection-paradox-is-ev...
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#29Nice execution, I think you nailed the vibe. Nice find on that display, it’s awesome!
If you wanted to get rid of your middleware and maybe pick up some insight, one of the things that SOTA LLMs are really good at is translating code from one language into another.
The ESP has plenty of moxie to handle the API work, so you could try translating it for the ESP, then you could drop the weight of your middleware service. I use LLMs that way when I feel roadblocked (usually laziness more than anything lol) and I’m often surprised at how much I learn from the implementation.
Just an idea, it’s fine as it is.
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#30Cool project and very nicely done!! claps. You know what, I used to plan my leaving from home based on the timings at the station, but soon I realized that it is not worth it. It is not because trains are not sticking to the time table. Just randomly starting at your own comfort eliminates the anxiety that comes with planning. Your average wait time might increase to half of the interval between the trains, but that…
I built a small hardware device to show the departure time of the tram next to my house, because here in Finland it gets cold in winter. Mostly the winter isn't super-cold, something like -10°C/14°F, but there are weeks where it will be -20°C/-4°F and then there's a big difference between waiting at the tram stop for 1 minute or 7 minutes.
Here, if it's -10 degrees, then the tram probably won't be working anyway; Ireland tends to take that sort of extreme temperature as a license to shut down _absolutely everything_.
(It hasn't been -20 degrees here since records began.)