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An enterprising guy with apparently a LOT of time on his hands has crafted a clock made to look like the Weasley Family household clock representing where every member of the family is at the moment. Except this guy didn’t use magic, he used Twitter. Check it out:
Here’s a little bit of the mechanics behind this:
“Here’s the general logic it uses.
1. My final design uses a script to fetch four twitter feeds every couple minutes.
2. The script then parses out the first words and searches for a matching ’status’.
3. If no match is found, it sets the status to ‘Read Me’
4. The script outputs a string with the hand number followed by a separator character, and then a letter from a-l for the status like ‘1>d2>b3>g4>a’. This would set the 1 hand to ’school’ the 2 hand to ‘Church’, the 3 hand to ‘Home’ and the 4 hand to ‘Mortal Peril’.
5. The string is passed to the arduino which checks if the hand location is known. If it is and hasn’t changed, it does nothing. If it’s unknown or changed, it drives the corresponding servo to the new location and stores the current location.”
Interesting, no? I would totally get one of these, except nobody in my family even knows what Twitter is, so……