North Station Display

I live directly above North Station. At some point that became a whole apartment aesthetic — there's an authentic Green Line sign on my wall. The departure board was the next logical step.

Part functional, part decoration. A Raspberry Pi drives a 192×32 LED matrix: Python hits the MBTA API, Pillow draws the next two departures onto a tiny pixel canvas, that image gets pushed to the panel. Runs in a loop. Looks good next to the sign.

The font is Darktronics — a bitmap typeface built for exactly this kind of display. Fits in 20pt with one pixel to spare and reads perfectly from across the room.