Build Your Own LCD Bus Schedule

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."

Comments

why is he on the bus?

[jptxs]

If he can afford LCD components and othre tech-weenie toys why not just buy a car? sheesh.

Why a bus? Why not a bicycle?

[AnonymousCowheard]

You'll save ~ $30 per month by not taking the bus. Use a bicycle of some kind; I do! I am not profiling anyone, but I must say that my literacy does have a tremendous impact on my physical limitations; computer work just lets your body become weaker by the month. Not only that, the chicks don't dig a guy that is overly-skinny or morbidly obese. Using a bicycle to get to your day job or university/school is much more healthy: you train the parts of the body the females/chicks/women are attracted to as well as improve your ability to pounce and beat the living fuck out of the jocks that harass and defame us nobel geeks for choosing a life-cycle that tends to lack physical and material stature. Now before anyone flames me on sounding irrational, yes it took me some time to become accustomed to my over-use of bicycles. My job is related to metallurgy, physics and chemistry; I will not tell you where, I'd like to remain somwhat unknown/anonymous on slashdot. I ride to my day job one way at 36 miles, a 2.5 hour ride, and I ride all the way back when I'm done. I've even dis-liked the legacy design of bicycles that I engineered and welded my own bicycle so it is built for speed and stability in the common case of jumping curbs or hitting excessive pot-holes in the road.

I'm a geek, I ride a bike, and I'm a naturally-born sentient sovereign individual that accepts and agrees, expressed or implied, to my unalienable right to non-restricted travel. I'm quite common upon my declaration because I have engineered a homebrew implementation of a 11-horsepower lawn-mower engine and custom manual transmission on the rear of my cruiser-bike/kart and some United States employees attempt to cite me for any regulation I was not contracted because I do not accept "traveling" as a privilege by "Driver's License."

'nuff said.