Introducing a new feature for the Inky MBTA Tracker, estimated arrival times. Now, when clicking on a track or bus, you can see the estimated time of arrival.

Check it out today!

Here is an MBTA Commuter Rail trip that I took from South Station in Boston, MA to Fall River Depot, on Phase 1 of South Coast Rail. The trip was hosted by TransitMatters, a non-profit advocacy organization focused on increasing mobility in Massachusetts.

The new arches being built in South Station

Rainy day out at Holbrook/Randolph station

Here is my step by step guide of how to setup the inky-mbta-tracker. This is a real time e-ink transit departure board for the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority). It supports tracking multiple stations and lines and displays departures based on if you can actually reach them.

Please check Required Components to learn what you will need to buy for this project.

Architecture

I am a Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat. During one of our team meetings, one of my coworkers mentioned that they had met a few coworkers at the media department of Red Hat and they were looking for an SRE to explain a day in their life. So, here is that video… which will forever torment me and its extremely memeable quotes.

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