Waitless Bus Tracking System

How to know if the bus passed by because you arrive late at the station, or you just came too early and the bus has not arrive yet. Well what you need is a Waitless Tracking System, the goal of this system is to eliminate the concern of whether the bus passed by or not, armed with an Arduino, a solar panel and a connection wireless Internet, the system is able to display on a printed map with a diagram of the bus trip through LEDs placed behind the map which will light exactly where the bus is at that time, and all this in a standalone package which gives the ability to install anywhere.

Here a video of how it works.


From - Hackaday

Box of fortune made with Arduino

A simple and fun project that uses an LCD 16 × 2 with parallel interface, LEDs, buttons and the Arduino.

Pressing the button indicated predicts your fortune or your lucky number through pre-loaded messages that are displayed on the LCD,

The messages are chosen from a random selection.

From - Makezine Blog

DIY LED Array Display - using ATmega168 microcontroller

NerdKits has put together a video that describes how a LED row/column matrix is wired. This comes in handy when you have limited pins and need to control lots of items. Another popular method is to use a serial to parallel latch.

"This project makes use of row-column addressing, which lets us control lots of LEDs without having one wire going to each one. We also use one more trick — the fact that diodes only conduct in one direction — to double the number of LEDs you can handle with the ATmega168 microcontroller. "

From - Hackedgadgets

Facebook lamp indicates social events

Alessandro writes -

Facebook Lamp is an RGB led lamp that advise you if you have notifications on facebook changing its color or fading from one to others , the lamp in connected to my laptop via USB and is controlled by a custom software, written by me, able to connect to the web and retrive information from your facebook pages.

From - Makezine Blog