C4FCM/MBTA Hackathon
Mission
To create applications for the web, phone, and other technologies using recently-released data from MassDOT and MIT.
For more information, please go to our Eventbrite page.
Projects
LED Sign
Ben Resner's LED sign has been cloned. The plans for the new sign are to make it work with live prediction data for the Saferide shuttles and install it near the Student Center.
Since Saferide is only operational after 6, we can't test it yet! But we think it works =)
Next steps:
- Figure out how to make the sign not scroll but display 4 fixed messages in turn
- Talk to Anna's or other student center businesses to see if they could use the sign.
T Explorer Project
Team members: Phoebe Post, Christina Xu, Brennan Moore
The user will input an address and a desired radius (0.1 mi to 1 mi). We will geocode the address into lat/long (probably using Google), and then query the database of stops for all the points within the radius given (probably using Postgres. Once we have a collection of stops, we then query the database for all the routes that those bus stops give you access to, and map the routes onto a map which we display.
WATCH
Minimal Project
- watch receives time of next bus(es) for hardcoded station id
ToDo
- [x] computer --bluetooth--> watch
- [ ] phone --bluetooth--> watch
- [ ] firmwear on watch?
- send data over bluetooth
-> [ ] how? -> [ ] what?
note: futzing with the watch's bluetooth, and the general brainstorming that occurred at the beginning, convinced me to buy an arduino microcontroller plus a wireless shield. i highly recommend this path (also look into xbee client->server->computer route). more information here: http://github.com/diN0bot/ProcrasDoCoder ~lucy.