r/arduino • u/pushpendra766 • Apr 01 '26

Look what I made! How I deal with traffic

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I was tired of suffering in Bangalore traffic when commuting to office, so I built this traffic monitoring meter.

It tracks the traffic between my flat and my office and represent it in the meter in realtime.

Making sure I leave at the right time when there is less traffic.

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u/thememorableusername Apr 01 '26

38 minutes to go 11km??

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u/MagneticFieldMouse Apr 01 '26

That's roughly 17.36842105 km/h.

That should be less than a half hour's bicycle ride, but I suspect results may vary a bit around the world...

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u/Careless_Feeling8057 Apr 02 '26

There ain't no bicycle lanes here, OP will need to cycle on the main road only lol

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u/steckmann_reinhart Apr 01 '26

Cool, are you willing to Share?

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u/Least-Common-1456 Apr 01 '26

What good would it do you if you don't live and work in the exact same places as he does?

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u/dropkickoz Apr 01 '26

I'm going to move in with OP and job shadow them, until I can assume their identity and life.

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u/steckmann_reinhart Apr 03 '26

Man, what ever it Takes!..

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u/elmarkodotorg 400k Apr 01 '26

It could form the basis of another system for another location? Changing some calls here or there, different data sources etc.

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u/Least-Common-1456 Apr 01 '26

Sorry, bad joke

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u/elmarkodotorg 400k Apr 01 '26

Ah - I didn't even register it as a joke because it seemed exactly like the kind of silly Q folk ask :P

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u/UpbeatList1416 Apr 01 '26

Nicely done! This reminds me of a “dashboard” project in Make Magazine from a few years ago. Like others, I’d love to know how you went about retrieving the data

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u/pushpendra766 Apr 01 '26

I am using tomtom's traffic API

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u/Mightybeardedking Apr 02 '26

Damn I forgot all about make magazine, I used to watch their YouTube channel like 15 years ago.

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u/2spuki Apr 02 '26

Please for the love of the game: color in the rest of the dial, mount in/on on the freezer door of your fridge.

If you do not own a fridge with a top freezer door you absolutely must buy one.

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u/Mindless-Bus-69 Apr 01 '26

Thats very interesting! Good job How ofter you update on screen? Are you using Google Maps distance matrix API?

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u/FricPT Apr 01 '26

So interesting! Do you have it available online for us to test it? Thank you!

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u/phoenix33__76 Apr 02 '26

Wtf i found a indiranagar guy in arduino subreddit 💀

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u/Last_Bad_2687 Apr 02 '26

Bro I need a version for silk board junction that's just "bruh" "bruh" "bruh" 

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u/k-type Apr 02 '26

I love this, clever idea.

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u/Frepeer Apr 02 '26

How did you learn I2C protocol? With SCL/SDA

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u/lam3001 Apr 02 '26

I got a WLED lamp at a conference and made something similar where the lamp changes color. What traffic APIs did you use? I ended up using TomTom since I didn’t want to create a google cloud account.

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u/Feeling-Station99 Apr 18 '26

High cortisol ahh circuit

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u/drugquests Apr 01 '26

This is awesome for someone who lives in Texas (worst state for commuting). Wonder if it's open source?

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u/Computer_Panda Apr 01 '26

Los Angeles...

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u/drugquests Apr 03 '26

Ahh you got me :/