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Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority

113 pointsby karagenit9 months ago

8 comments

quercusa9 months ago
Extra points for:<p><i>In a way, it&#x27;s more accurate to say that the signaling system can infer where trains are because it knows where they aren&#x27;t.</i>
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throwaway2016069 months ago
¿ Should it be &quot;Massachusetts Bodged Transit Authority&quot; and not &quot;Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority&quot;?<p>I can&#x27;t help but think that I am missing a really cool inside joke of some kind here.<p>I get that it is an electronics project using a piece of transit authority electronic equipment so &quot;transistor&quot; make a ton of sense from that perspective but also get it that it is easy to go &quot;transistor&quot; when you mean &quot;transit&quot; especially if you work a lot with electronics.<p>Can anyone help me out with a hint ( and not an answer ) if I am indeed missing something key all together.<p>Either way, both article title and article content are dope.
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szvsw9 months ago
Not sure if this makes me more or less depressed about the state of the MBTA… will definitely be thinking about this on the red line tomorrow morning! Thanks for sharing.
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pavel_lishin9 months ago
Re: the OpenStreetMap speed limit thing - is that why Google Maps also doesn&#x27;t show me the speed limit of the current street I&#x27;m driving on, <i>unless</i> I&#x27;m following directions?
elric9 months ago
Tangent: I&#x27;ve never seen botched spelled with dg before. Is this a local spelling variation? Or is my brain on the fritz?<p>English, the gift that keeps on giving.
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harshaw9 months ago
Cool hack. Funny to see them drive onto RT 2 after alewife and have a 25 mph limit as everyone floors it. Also not sure where an mbta train ever hits 55.
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heartag9 months ago
&gt; Train. Honk honk(??)<p>Hi Tris!
dheera9 months ago
I would have probably just taken apart the mechanics and replaced it with an RC servo.