Crumbs!

A while back, I was shown (http://toggl.com)[Toggl], a website that allows you to track how you spend your time. The site is great, but what if my current task (or hobby) doesn’t involve a computer?

I’ve just completed a functional prototype for a physical interface to Toggl. Tokens, containing RFID tags, are placed on a time-tracking pedestal. An Arduino microcontroller beneath the pedestal notices that a token has been put on the pedestal, and starts tracking how long it has been there. When the tag is removed, it outputs the tag number, and the number of seconds the tag was present.

This data is read by a small python script, which looks up the tag number, maps it to a Toggl project name, and creates a new task in that project.

All that’s left is to design an enclosure that is both awesome and functional.