April 29, 2016 AT 3:00 am
Raspberry Pi Digital Hourglass #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
Via esologic.
Trying to get the most out of a day has been big theme of my life lately, as I’m sure it is for many people. I’ve found that I always manage my time better when things are urgent; I’m considerably more productive when I have to be.
I want an ascetically pleasing way to be able to represent how much time is left in the day at a granular scale, like an hourglass. Watching individual seconds disappear will look cool and (hopefully) create that sense of urgency that I want to induce.
Technically, this is a really simple thing to accomplish thanks to python and pygame. Here’s a video of a proof of concept running on my laptop.
At the start of each day, the display is filled with squares at random locations, with a random color. As each second elapses, a square will vanish.
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