{"id":16269,"date":"2017-01-19T15:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16269"},"modified":"2017-01-19T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:17:19","slug":"wizarding-world-internet-of-things-clock-using-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16269","title":{"rendered":"Wizarding World \/ Internet of Things clock using a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16270\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/weasley_clock.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patpeters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Peters<\/a> from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the <a href=\"http:\/\/harrypotter.wikia.com\/wiki\/Weasley_Clock\" target=\"_blank\">Wizarding World&#8217;s famous Weasley Clock<\/a>\u00a0and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). Tracking the locations of both himself and his wife, the clock&#8217;s Pi subscribes to an MQTT broker service that their phones publish events to using the <a href=\"http:\/\/owntracks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OwnTracks GPS app<\/a>. Added into the mix is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/products\/2327\" target=\"_blank\">Adafruit ServoHAT<\/a>\u00a0and some servos to move the hands. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Build-Your-Own-Weasley-Location-Clock\/\" target=\"_blank\">published how to do it on an Instructable<\/a>, so you can have your very own clock!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/harry-potter-real-life-weasley-clock\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foundation&#8217;s Alex Bate<\/a> for spotting this one.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Peters from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the Wizarding World&#8217;s famous Weasley Clock\u00a0and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). Tracking the locations of both himself and his wife,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16269\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,22,20,25,26,50,45,51],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-16269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-geeky-techiness","category-gpio-boards","category-home-automation","category-internet-of-things","category-making","category-robotics","category-tutorials","tag-harry-potter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wizarding World \/ Internet of Things clock using a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16269\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wizarding World \/ Internet of Things clock using a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pat Peters from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the Wizarding World&#8217;s famous Weasley Clock\u00a0and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). 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