Now running ScrollKit 3.0

Live theme park ride wait times, on your desk.

A little 64×32 LED sign that joins your WiFi and scrolls current standby times for the parks you pick — ride names up top, the wait in big two-tone digits below, green when the line is short and red when it isn’t. Build it yourself. No subscription, no account.

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100+Parks worldwide
~5 minLive refresh
$0Subscription
MITOpen source

The LED display scrolling a ride name with its wait time and an animated icon — Real 3.0 output, rendered from the ScrollKit simulator

What it does

Everything runs on the sign itself — no phone app, no cloud account, nothing to sign into.

Theme park ride wait times

Standby times for 100+ parks from the free themeparks.wiki API, refreshed every few minutes. Colors run green→red by how long the line is; closed and down rides say so.

Animated ride art

Rides carry a tiny hand-drawn 64×32 icon — a boat for Jungle Cruise, a ghost for Haunted Mansion — and in 3.0 they move. Over 80 icons driven by a dozen animation styles.

Effects & transitions

Thirteen screen transitions and animated number reveals (rain, swarm, split-flap) are chosen at random per screen, so the motion never loops the same way twice.

Set up from your phone

First boot opens its own WiFi setup portal — join it, enter your network, done. Then pick up to four parks and your colors from a web page the sign hosts itself.

Runs unattended

A hardware watchdog reboots the board if it ever wedges, a reboot-loop safe mode keeps the config page reachable, and WiFi self-heals after a power blip. It just keeps going.

Updates itself

New features and ride art arrive over the air from a public GitHub channel — an on-device “Installing…” screen, then a reboot. Free, forever.

Version 3.0

Completely rewritten. Twice as much fun.

3.0 rebuilds the whole thing on ScrollKit, a fault-tolerant LED-matrix library. The result is more robust and more alive — animated icons, cinematic transitions, playful number reveals, and a boot sequence that swarms the letters of “Theme Park Waits” into place.

What’s new in 3.0 How it’s built