{"id":13523,"date":"2015-10-09T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2015-10-09T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:55:23","slug":"whens-the-next-bus-with-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13523","title":{"rendered":"When&#8217;s the next bus? with a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scienceexposure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ftrd-img-1024x570.jpg?resize=560%2C312\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ismail Uddin has published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceexposure.com\/raspberry-pi\/build-london-bus-ticker-using-raspberry-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">nice little tutorial on Science Exposure<\/a>. In it, he uses a 16&#215;2 HD44780 LCD screen and some Python to produce a next-bus tracking system. 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