The Magic Clock

Here's my finished whereabout clock setting the status for all four feeds. The clock uses a wireless connection to retrieve four twitter feeds, parse them, and decide where to set the hands. It then passes the information to an arduino board which drives four servo motors to turn the hands. Read the whole build log at http://www.themagicclock.com

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[DrLsw]

also i think itd be kinda cool if you made a magic compass except have the directional arrows in 3 planes instead of 2. but seriously as awesome as that would be it would be the governments ultimate control freak you have no privacy i wanna know everything device lol but only if it was programmed to follow a persons RFID chip.

[sliptonic]

I like the idea a lot. Probably beyond my skills though.

[DrLsw]

if you move the clock in a different direction will it adjust for the direction the person your stalking i mean twittering is in? lol

im bad at trying to explain things so if that didnt make sense then maybe this will. if you decided to change around the room and moved the clock to a different wall so say it was facing west and you moved it to face east would the clock know you moved it and adjust the direction the arrows faced? ot is that something you have to do manually? itd b a cool feature

[sliptonic]

It doesn't function at all like a compass in the sense of pointing at the person. Rather, like the clock in the Harry Potter books, it has the various 'whereabouts' written in words around the edge where the numbers would be. Then the hand corresponding points to the correct 'status' for that person. School, work, travelling, etc.

[RobotBacon]

This is very cool. Do you think it could have benefited from making each 'arm' a different length so that faces weren't complete obscured when multiple people were in the same direction?

[sliptonic]

Yes I do. Cutting the hands was really a stretch for my little CNC machine so I kept it simple. Rebuilding them is something I'd like to do as an improvement.

[TheWindGinProject]

Wonderful! I'm curious, how did you learn to work with the Arduino? I would love to have Arduino skills but I have zero confidence in my ability to learn the programming. Anyway, the story of how your project started is really neat and I suggest that folks check out your web site. Thanks

[frostycolt]

like on harry potter cool i want one

[Modo3000]

I love the fact that Minnesota is an option!

[LovesBwayAndSinging]

I would surely get that clock!! how does it work like it does in the movie?

[LiveLaughLovePotter]

I WANT IT ♥

[intemister]

WTF wasteman

[Katekazoo]

:)) haha did you get the ideea from harry potter? it's great !