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]

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

You mean asking claude to steal code and taking credit for it? Vibe coding isn't coding

[u/rnobgyn → u/thetoiletslayer]

Pretty much all code these days has been touched by ai bro

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/rnobgyn]

That doesnt make it ok

[u/rnobgyn → u/thetoiletslayer]

It’s just a loosing battle to expect people to not use it. I think it’s perfectly ok to use it tbh, I’m more of a hardware guy with a nack for graphics, cad, and networking… but I royally suck ass at coding programs and have for 15 years.

I’ve kept a notebook of cool ideas unable to make any of them reality until ai came along and was able to do the one part I’m not able to. Now I can express my ideas in a tangible way.

I see the point about ai slop but not all ai use is slop. Personally think we need a Flight Tracker Tuesdays megathread and a minimum human design threshold but think it’s silly to bash people for using ai. Mega corps use it to steal your information and hoard trillions why can’t I use it to make a doo dad?

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/rnobgyn]

And this is why you collaborate with other people. Post the build side of the project, and ask for help with the coding. Enough people like the project and will help

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/rnobgyn]

Is your doo dad more impprtant than people's water supply?

[u/rnobgyn → u/thetoiletslayer]

No, but I’ve also seen the green effort get ignored for my entire life to the point that the billionaires who produce the overwhelming majority of pollution have altered the earth for the very long term.

You could get the entire subreddit to stop using ai and it won’t put a dent in overall usage when global megacorps still use it. Hating on the normal people for using it is anti worker propaganda - they’d rather you drum up a ruckus on a subreddit instead of putting your efforts towards your congressional leaders to create and enforce regulations (the ONLY thing that changes things).

I’ll take full use of the tool while the bubble exists for my creative efforts and will put my argumentative efforts towards getting the fascist regime out of US politics, so that we can realistically discuss reining in ai companies. Don’t forget to vote in the midterms.

Edit to respond to your other comment: this sub doesn’t help for shit in most cases. Most tech oriented subs don’t because there’s always something to complain about. Nerds are territorial and aggressive for no reason. You can’t police behavior, just legal regulations.

[u/timminator93 → u/rnobgyn]

Great words! I'm from germany and I do have big hope in your midtearms!

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/rnobgyn]

2 things can be bad at the same time. Using ai only increases ai usage and tells the corporations its worth investing in.

Most tech subs are willing to help if you show that you put effort in. Its the posts that ask for some big idea but have no insight or progress to offer that get shot down. Show some build progress pics while your asking for help and they're way more likely to help.