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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.
When was Noisebridge new? I started going around 2010/11
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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
Once you’ve had a few weeks of that, you only need a little jacket at -20c.
Yukon, Canada.
It’s all relative.
The coldest I ever went walking in was -48c just below the arctic circle in November, not counting wind chill. I’ve also hung out in +48C a couple of times. Still hoping I can get a hundred degree temperature swing.
Nice 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…
Worse, predatory AI companies mean that vendors like DigiKey, Mouser, Farnell/Newark/Element14, and McMaster-Carr have to hide their sites behind anti-bot services. In practical terms that means you can expect to have to "click and hold" some stupid button for upwards of fifteen seconds just to access a page on the DigiKey site. Or maybe you'll just be flat out denied access to Farnell's catalog because you don't seem human enough.
Externalizing the costs of your cute little short cut tools has very real negative consequences for the maker community.
Cool! Hey I have a feature request: Could you add the robotic voices? https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20090309
I love how long the terrible speech synthesis on BART lasted. I don't mean this in a negative way at all. BART was so state of the art when it was built, that it still feels like the future today. They did a good job on ... everything. Fun link. I saw this article and immediately thought "I need to go find the voice" and this is exactly what I was looking for.
They did a good job on ... everything.
Fun link. I saw this article and immediately thought "I need to go
find the voice" and this is exactly what I was looking for.
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I love how long the terrible speech synthesis on BART lasted. I don't mean this in a negative way at all. BART was so state of the art when it was built, that it still feels like the future today. They did a good job on ... everything. Fun link. I saw this article and immediately thought "I need to go find the voice" and this is exactly what I was looking for.
Trains in London in 1992 had announcements using recorded voice clips, so I'm surprised BART chose this synthesized system. Perhaps it sounded more futuristic than plain recordings? https://youtube.com/watch?v=vW3hheSml3Q
Trains in London in 1992 had announcements using recorded voice clips
Perhaps it sounded more futuristic than plain recordings?
In San Francisco, Muni paid a Texan to record stop announcements for their buses. I've absolutely no idea how this ended up being the case but she absolutely massacred the pronunciation of a few (mostly Spanish) words.