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I did a similar thing re-creating the font used by the VBZ in Zürich, Switzerland.

https://sschueller.github.io/posts/vbz-fahrgastinformation/#...

The actual physical display here is great too. Certainly the London ones a key part of the aesthetic is the orange LEDs. How is the brightness and power consumption?

I built a programmable one a while back[1] with the primary use case being TfL departures. I have hooked it up to a smart plug with energy consumption metrics and the max it uses is around 0.53Wh every 10 minutes.

At one point I considered selling it, but with the amount of legal stuff around CE marking I got demotivated. Plus these days you have https://tidbyt.com/.

1 - https://twitter.com/d0m96/status/1427055272980328460

= 3.18 W

One thing I couldn't figure out (but you might know) for Tidybyt was: Can it be told to use a different server, supposing that the present makers went away? Without that, I have to consider the lifetime of the device is entwined with the lifetime of the makers.

No idea I'm afraid

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

I'm not a native speaker of English, but pretty sure that the word "tic" [sic] is not what you want. Look into apostrophes [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27_(disambiguation)

I recently got to see the official documentation on the departure sign and it refers to what I called the "tic" as "Hochkomma" which would be a "quote" symbol.

The font looks like a familiar one from Windows, maybe Tahoma?

I recently found out that it's a custom font designed by a "Herrn Buser" known as "Buser BöV Schrift". It was specifically made to be readable by visually impaired persons from a larger distance.

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