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Live Bus Map for Your Wall

Dublin Bus publishes an API which can be queried to show how long it will be before the next bus will arrive at a stop. Many of the busier bus stops have signs that will show you this information while you wait.

My local bus stop doesn't have this info, and I'm pretty lazy¹ in the mornings. So I built a live map showing buses that were approaching my local bus stop.

Photo of picture frame with a light showing the location of a bus, hung on the wall in a hallway

This project was inspired by the People in Space Indicator, a cute project which lights up an LED for every person currently in space, right now. However I realised that a Raspberry PI Zero W is small enough to fit into an IKEA RIBBA picture frame.

I used the Real-time Passenger Information (RTPI) API to retrieve the data

¹ Too lazy to use the Dublin Bus App or Website apparently…