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Beacon-based instant info about when the bus or train will get to your stop via an app, smartwatch, or website |
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Fall 2015 |
WHO |
Me and Alex Bettadapur |
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Bay Area, hackmyride2 challenge |
WHY |
I ride the VTA, and this seemed like something that should exist - the competition gave us a good excuse to make it |
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I started out the project thinking i’d do something much lower-level, but ended up working mostly on high-level frameworks with an existing beacon devkit. Thanks to (for once) things mostly working as we expected, we completed the vast majority of the project in about a month. Not bad, considering we made an Android app, a Django-based website (with significant frontends and backends), and a Pebble app. The data being in a standard GTFS format certainly helped, since we were bootstrapped by existing Django extensions for that. We did not get top three, but getting 1.5k for the best beacon award is not bad. |
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