MIT student builds real-time MBTA map into wall using LED lights
Posted on September 28, 2015
By Steve Annear, Boston Globe
CAMBRIDGE — The makeshift display secured into the wall glows and pulsates, creating a hypnotic aura like a lava lamp for the modern-day engineering student. But more than that, it pinpoints the whereabouts of the MBTA’s many trolleys and trains. Inspired by his love of public transit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology junior Ian Reynolds has built onto his fraternity room wall a map of the T that shows real-time locations of the vehicles using vibrant LED lights. Read more at BostonGlobe.com.
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