A Hacked WiFi Router, an API, and a Toy Bus: It's the Ambient Bus Arrival Monito

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @09:40AM from the don't-want-to-be-outdoors-any-longer-than-necessary dept.

JohnGrahamCumming writes "In this simple project, a hacked Linksys WRT54GL talks to a public API to get real-time bus information, and displays the times of the next buses on a model bus. Never miss the bus again! 'It's possible to reflash the Linksys with a custom Linux installation that lets me control the box completely (and still use it as a wireless router). There are various project, but I used OpenWRT. With OpenWRT it's possible to SSH into the box and treat it as any Linux server (albeit a rather slow one). But there's plenty of power to grab bus times and update an LED display connected to the WRT54GL's serial port. "

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Re:FYI by Beardo+the+Bearded · 2012-03-20 11:03 · Score: 5, Funny

The Victoria bus system is based on a "fuck you, we show up when we want... and fuck you" system.

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