Realtime BART Arrival Display
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·November 10, 2025zkmon
stevekemp
I built a small hardware device to show the departure time of the tram next to my house, because here in Finland it gets cold in winter.
Mostly the winter isn't super-cold, something like -10°C/14°F, but there are weeks where it will be -20°C/-4°F and then there's a big difference between waiting at the tram stop for 1 minute or 7 minutes.
lanyard-textile
Agreed. It’s honestly not that long of a wait at most stations.
ThrowawayTestr
Very cute, I love it.
rafaele
Cool! Hey I have a feature request: Could you add the robotic voices?
p0w3n3d
In my case my nostalgia is tied to the bubbly incoherent voice that says (in astonishingly clear manner) what train arrives first and then proceeds to say which platform and which track, which is so indistinguishable that you never know where to run to (before we had BARTs in the underground passage we used to check all the platforms, because there might have been a change)
jrockway
I love how long the terrible speech synthesis on BART lasted. I don't mean this in a negative way at all. BART was so state of the art when it was built, that it still feels like the future today. They did a good job on ... everything.
Fun link. I saw this article and immediately thought "I need to go find the voice" and this is exactly what I was looking for.
dddw
An idea well executed! tips hat
kleiba
This should be a commercial product.
spankalee
BART has a really good merch store. They should totally sell this on there: https://www.railgoods.com/
jo-m
There a similar one, but it's the Swiss public transport system: https://tramli.ch/
croisillon
i had to look it up: Vienna too https://straba.at/
FinnKuhn
I love that they are also imitating the real sign desing just like OP.
BoredPositron
Love it and I am glad the data is available to make little projects like this. You need to work with more heat or wetting when soldering though.
marinhero
What a great thing you built!
markhale
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Cool project and very nicely done!! claps.
You know what, I used to plan my leaving from home based on the timings at the station, but soon I realized that it is not worth it. It is not because trains are not sticking to the time table. Just randomly starting at your own comfort eliminates the anxiety that comes with planning. Your average wait time might increase to half of the interval between the trains, but that would be an increase of only a few minutes for mornings, in return for never bothering to check time again.