A Harry Potter fan constructed a working replica of the clock that the Weasley family members used to track each others’ locations.

Tbornottb (his user name) shared photos of the custom clock. He used a gutted broken clock that he purchased from an antique store as the base and had a friend illustrate the new face of the clock, which featured locations such as on the way, home, work, holiday, forest and mortal peril.

He then used a Particle Photon that would communicate with an application known as ‘If This Then That’ that would move the clock’s hand depending on each family members GPS location. Each family member then set the parameters for what each geographical location would be represented by on the clock. “Most of the rules are location-based (setting me to ‘work’ if I enter my university library, ‘home’ if I enter my dorm), but you can set other triggers too…” tbornottb wrote.

The final touch was a letter ‘B’ which represents his family name and glows a different colour each time a family member changes location.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 19th, 2015