As I live in Berlin and student tickets are cheap, I have no need for a car and use only public transport for getting from A to B. The only problem is that I can't remember the departure times of all those trains and buses...

Saturday at about 5 p.m. I decided that I really needed a fancy, realtime-updated display with the departure times of the nearby bus and S-Bahn railway stations. A few hours of hacking later (and 15 minutes today for assembling) everything was finished :)

Now I won't miss my trains anymore at the station. And if it's delayed, I won't be too early at the station for nothing (the departure times are also correctly updated in this case).

Used tools: A milk-glass cabinet door from IKEA as table, An old G4 PowerBook, an old 15" TFT, (don't laugh) the MiniKidsGames framework (based on RubyCocoa), around 80 lines of Ruby code and some XML/XPath queries for parsing output from VBB online with the REXML library.