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November 12, 2010
How Low Can We Go?
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It's sitting on my kitchen counter (in front of a mini-food processor) running the Transit Board™ display.
It's not actually useful, I need my reading glasses to see it (it would probably work better with a UI that showed one arrival at a time, in much larger fonts) but it demonstrates that we can get all the needed connectivity and processing power for a transit appliance for under $100 retail ($99.99).
I have a little more hope for a $99.99 Android device that UPS is supposed to deliver next week. It will be my first attempt to run a transit UI on an Android device.
Posted by Chris Smith at 12:50 AM
Comments
November 11, 2010 11:52 PM
Will Says:
Amazing idea, and great proof of concept. I saw your device "out in the wild" at Bailey's and I do have to agree: larger fonts = awesome. Even on the screen there (larger than the one referenced in the post here) it was difficult to read more than a few steps away.
Absolutely love this though - can't wait till they live inside every local business.
November 12, 2010 6:30 AM
Chris Smith Says:
Font size is critical - the 8" unit at Bailey's works on a "walk up" basis, we need something different if we want people to see it across the room.
