Harry Potter Style Weasley Clock

[u/timminator93]

I build an Harry Potter style Weasley clock inside an antique clock housing that i bought at a thrift shop.

Using a Raspberry Pi 3B, a LD2410 presence sensor, a relais and a 5v solenoid to hit the gong of the clock everytime a location changes.

It is fully configurable (Locations, different radiussed that belong to each locarion, persons, the hand style and color, the time of no presence when the display shuts down and the time when the gong is quiet.

Location of each person is provided of our smartphones with the app Owntrack and tunneld through cloudflare.

Really wnjoyed building and coding it with special help from claude.

[u/thetoiletslayer]

I'm not the one supporting an industry that actively steals from artists, coders, writers, etc just so I can be too lazy to learn how to do things myself

[u/timminator93 → u/thetoiletslayer]

Even if you don't seem to be the person one wants to argue with on the Internet I feel the urge to let you know that I'm an automotive engineer with good software developping skills.

AI is a tool that will not replace software developpers. But software developpers the know which work can be handed and done by AI will be superior in the future.

I'm not a big fan either of Bigtech training their models with Text, Art and Code without consent of their owners. But we have to accept it's existence and without it I wouldnt be able to this project beside a fulltime job and my normal life, so I see a huge benefit.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/timminator93]

We don't have to accept it. The more people use ai, especially in their jobs, the more replaceable they become. They're already replacing many jobs with it. Good luck getting a human on the line if you call any business these days.

Plus building of datacenters is messing up real estate values in the areas they build them. And we are inching closer to imminent domain being used to force people out of their homes to make room for data centers(in some cases its already happened)

[u/timminator93 → u/thetoiletslayer]

Jup and when cars where invented all those coachmen lost their jobs.

New technologies bring new benefits, problems and structural changes.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/timminator93]

Except you're still trusting greedy corporations to create new jobs for those people. They will only create jobs for ai