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Build Your Own LCD Bus Schedule

Posted by michael on from the mass-transit dept.

MikeLRoy writes "An engineering student in Winnipeg, tired of missing his bus to school (and waiting in the cold) created an LCD bus stop. It displays the next bus times for several stops and routes, all from the heated comfort of his kitchen. And yes, there are pics and code on the site."

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  1. what?? by xao+gypsie · · Score: 5, Funny

    why, back in my day, we didnt have all these new fangled computer bus scheduler thingies. we had to work out the algorithm in our heads in the snow uphill going both ways....kids these days......

    xao

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    1. Re:what?? by angst_ridden_hipster · · Score: 5, Funny

      Emergency hatches? Why you lucky bastards! Where I grew up, the busses were sealed. If we wanted a ride, we'd have to chase after them, and grab on to a bit of barbed wire tied to the rear bumper, and hold on for dear life as we got dragged to our destination.

      Emergency hatches? Feh! No wonder the youth of today are so soft. Why, you probably had all your own limbs all the way up to adulthood! Emergency hatches...

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    2. Re:what?? by damien_kane · · Score: 5, Funny

      we had to work out the algorithm in our heads in the snow uphill going both ways...

      I remember the times my dad used to tell me this story all the time...
      Now I just say 'Shut up, Dad; or I'm putting you in a home'...

  2. Hrm. by d3kk · · Score: 5, Funny

    What I'd like to know is why an engineering student is still worried about missing a bus to school..

  3. This idiot didn't realize there is a bus schedule? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happened to either 1) looking the routes online, or 2) grabbing the routes from the library? Was this guy just going out to bus stops at random, hoping he got there at the right time? What was so hard about viewing the paper schedule?

    And how is he gonna use this thing he made when he's AWAY from home? Come home?

  4. Re:Amazingly by FrostedWheat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was traveling south a few months ago, and in Luton I saw this.

    Had to take a picture :)

    Image quality is rubbish, cheap camera.

  5. Re:I wish I had thought of that... by mrseigen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Considering that here in Alberta we don't have that, I don't think it's very likely that any non-Ontario provinces will have it either. I get my bus schedules from taking out my cell phone and calling the number on the bus stop sign, which then tells me that there are x minutes remaining until a bitter public servant crashes his bus into the shelter I'm cowering behind.

    Neat idea though.