Polly-Bus-Desternation-Controller

This is a recreation of the destination controller in our game Polly bus. It is loaded with routes from Midland Classic and the in-game company JournyWise Of Mainstone.

This project uses a LCD library ¹ from dhalbert to controll the 16x2 1602a LCD we used a ²ALAMSCN 2PCS HD44780 1602 16x2 LCD Display

Amazon Link

You will also need

• 3 Buttons
• 10 Male To Male Jumper Cables
• 1 Raspberry Pico/Pico W with Circuit Python ³Installed
• 1 Break Board We Used 2
• 1 16x2 1602a LCD
• 1 Mirco USB Cable

Setup the Components

Install The Code

• Download the Code From this repo Link
• More the zip folder to the Raspberry Pi Pico and extract it
• Once the code is extracted make sure you can see code.py in the root of the pico's file structure.
• Now just restart the pico and you can use the button on the small breadboard to control the device.

Add custom routes

• Open routes.py
• Add this template

CustomRoute = [
  #Route Dest      #Route Num
  "Not In Service  000",
  "Destination     1",
  "Destination     2",
  "Destination     3",
  "Destination     4",
  "Destination     5",
  "Destination     6"
]

Make sure to start the route num at the start of the # of the route num comment. Make sure the last route in the array does NOT have a "," at the end.

Add as many routes as you need.

Now Go to the bottom of routes.py and edit the "arrays" array like this.

arrays = {
    "JWOM": JWOMRoute,
    "MDCL": MDCLRoute,
    "Your Company": CustomRoute,
}

And

Companys = ["JWOM", "MDCL", "Your Company"]

The LCD library is from dhalbert

Footnotes

1. LCD Library ↩

2. Amazon Link ↩

3. Circut Python Install Guide ↩