The goal of this project is to build a visual indicator, physically located in the seclab, that will tell anyone in the lab when the next bus is due to arrive at Kennedy Library.
We need to make some decisions about the scope and implementation of the project. Some of the problems we need to think about include:
- there is more than one route that stops here
- there are lots of ways to indicate the information
- a light that turns on when it's close?
- a lights of multiple colors (eg. red, yellow, green)?
- the number of minutes remaining before the bus arrives?
- the data source might not have the most accurate predictions
- we can get the raw vehicle coordinates in real time, if we want we can try to compute a better prediction
- hardware stuff (power, network connection, enclosure, mounting)
The goal of this project is to build a visual indicator, physically located in the seclab, that will tell anyone in the lab when the next bus is due to arrive at Kennedy Library.
We need to make some decisions about the scope and implementation of the project. Some of the problems we need to think about include: