A College Student Recreates The Weasleys' Clock By Using His Family's Cell Phones

Are you a diehard Harry Potter fan? If yes, then you'll definitely relate to this masterpiece more than anyone else! Do you remember the Weasleys' clock that was located at the burrow, just outside of Devon, England? Yeah, the mighty clock that kept track of where each family member was at all times! Well, get a whiff of this magic! Trey Bagley, a senior of Duke University who majored in computer science has used his knowledge very appropriately, might I add, and re-created a real life, digital version of the same magical clock, from the Weasleys' house. Fancy that! © Trey Bagley Imgur Bagley and his family have always been really big fans of the Harry Potter franchise and haven't missed a single occasion to show their fandom off! "From midnight book releases to Halloween costumes and birthday parties to visiting the filming locations, it's been something that we could all share and get excited about," . As told by Bagley in an interview with an online publication. Since he feels his family are going their separate ways, it's essential to bind them together through digitalised magic and know where they are at all times! © Trey Bagley Imgur Bagley explained that Duke University has an Innovative Co-Lab which is basically a creativity incubator, that helps students acquire any technical resource they wish to use. He held an open class through the Innovative Co-Lab, to learn how to program something called the Particle Photon, a small and powerful microcontroller which connects to the wi-fi. "They taught us how to send it messages that would make it change the color and brightness of a single LED, which got me thinking about what else I could control with this little chip," © Trey Bagley Imgur Once Bagley had his sisters' permission, he connected all their mobile phones to a broken antique clock, and programmed them together with GPS. Bagley revealed his sisters were very hesitant at first because they weren't so keen on their parents knowing where they were at all times. But because one could program as much information as you wanted to reveal, they were eventually okay with the idea. Bagley finished working on the clock in time for Christmas, to make it one of the best gifts for his family, ever! © Trey Bagley Imgur "I got a friend to create the files needed to laser-cut wood for the clock's face, altered some code I found online, ordered a string of LED lights, and ran some tests on my phone so that messages would be sent to the Photon chip whenever the background GPS detected that I had entered or exited a radius that I had defined," A the end, Bagley helped his family set up certain rules on their phones which helped the clock become an 'always-changing conversation-piece' on their wall at home. A lot of friends and relatives have expressed their desire to buy the Weasleys' clock from Bagley but he's more keen on people building their own clock and experimenting with digitalised technology themselves! © Trey Bagley Imgur He went ahead and publicly posted the code the clocks run on, so that more and more people can recreate this marvel without finding it too complicated to work on! This clock will surely be on the 'list of things to create' for all the Indian moms out there, wont it?