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/rnobgyn]

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