A Hacked WiFi Router, an API, and a Toy Bus: It's the Ambient Bus Arrival Monito 53
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. "
Re:Must be an American (Score:4, Informative)
Countries with a real investment in public transport have these at most bus stops.
You exaggerate with "most", but they do exist at many stops in London. 2,500 according to the TfL website, out of 19,500 bus stops (!) used by 700 routes.
The interesting bit here is
1) The information is also on the web.
2) There's an API so people can access the data and use it themselves
3) He put it in a model bus