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Workburst 1 2 – A Pomodoro Timer

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  • Few Applications to Help you Follow the Pomodoro Technique 1. Focus List is a simple yet great tool for listing out all the tasks that you need to accomplish. The thing that makes it unique is it gives you a rough idea of how much time it will take to accomplish a task along with a pomodoro timer.
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  • Pomodoro Timer for Visual Studio is a handy VS extension designed to keep track of your Pomodoro Technique sessions. This is very basic; no configuration available, just the default work and break.
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This was fun. My first VSCode extension and Git repository. Caesars palace slot finder. This is my version of Pomodoro Technique as extension for VSCode. Hope you like it.

Features

Breaks down work into intervals (pomodoros) of 25 minutes separated by short breaks of 5 minutes, 4 pomodoros (sets) are separated by long breaks of 15 minutes.

After you start Pomodoro (Command Palette: Pomodoro Start/Pause) you will have in statusbar 🍅 Work 1/1 25:00:

  • 🍅 : the unicode character for tomato
  • Work : you are in the middle of a pomodoro
  • 1/1 : pomodoro 1 in set 1
  • 25:00 : the timer, after a second will become 24:59 and so on.

Dxo photolab 2 3 3 475. Above are the defaults that can be changed from settings.

The extension creates items in:

  • Command Palette: Pomodoro Start/Pause and Pomodoro Reset
  • Statusbar (and its tooltip): with custom texts from settings
  • Notifications: with custom texts from settings
  • Settings: Available settings bellow

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

  • pomodoro.work : time of a pomodoro
  • pomodoro.break : time of break between pomodoros
  • pomodoro.repeat : how many pomodoros in a set
  • pomodoro.longBreak : time of break between sets
  • pomodoro.autoStart : auto start on VSCode startup
  • pomodoro.filePath : send changed state { repeat: number, task: number, set: number, is: string, active: string } to your file module.exports = state => console.log(state)
  • pomodoro.make.notification : display notifications
  • pomodoro.make.statusbar:{alignment;priority} : create a statusbar item
  • pomodoro.texts:{notification;statusbar;tooltip} : the texts displayed, available placeholders with their outputs (you can see in the default values how they work):
    • %work{Work} : Work
    • %break{Break} : Break
    • %repeat : 4
    • %longBreak{Long Break} : Long Break
    • %started{Started} : Started
    • %paused{Paused} : Paused
    • %reset{Reset} : Reset
    • %task : 1,2,3,4,1,2.
    • %tasksLeft : 4,3,2,1,4,3.
    • %set : 1,2,3,4,5,6.
    • %hour : 01,00,23,22.
    • %minute : 01,00,59,58.
    • %second : 01,00,59,58.

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release

1.1.0

Remember the state when opening a folder, reloading a window, etc

Enjoy!

Schematics and code to create your own Pomodoro timer on a breadboard using Arduino

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Those who follow me on Twitter probably saw pictures and quick videos of my digital Pomodoro timer prototype. I used the case of a regular, mechanical timer and built a little Arduino on a breadboard (like, really barebones using a microcontroller) to fit inside it. This is how it looks like:

This was my first hardware prototype ever and I'm quite proud of it! A big thank you to my awesome husband for helping me whenever I got stuck.

In this first part I will show the schematics to create your own Pomodoro timer using an Arduino Micro on a breadboard. This doesn't require any soldering. http://wqwkvgs.xtgem.com/Blog/__xtblog_entry/19202160-dear-esther-landmark-edition-download-free#xt_blog.

In the second post I'll show how I did the smaller version fitting inside the Pomodoro timer.

Ah, in case you don't know: Pomodoro is a technique created to increase concentration and productivity. Learn more here.

How it works

The timer starts with a blue LED 'static', indicating that nothing started yet – I found this useful for knowing exactly when it is rebooted / powered on. When you click the button, it will start a working phase (25 minutes), where the LED will turn red and keep a 'breathing' effect while it's running. A little 'buzz' happens when you click the button.

Pomodoro

When the working phase is done, it will buzz in a different tone and the LED will turn to a static green color. This indicates that it's waiting for your input to change to the rest phase. When you click the button (little buzz again) the rest phase starts, and the LED will change to a 'breathing' effect. When the rest is done, it will buzz again and show the red static LED that indicates a new working phase should start. Airy 3 4 193 – video downloader. And so on. 🙂

This is how it looks like on the breadboard:

A video posted by Erika Heidi Reinaldo (@erikaheidi) on Jan 18, 2015 at 11:17am PST

What you will need

  • RGB LED (1x)
  • 330 ohm resistors for the LED (3x)
  • buzzer (1x)
  • push button (1x)
  • 10k ohm resistor for button (1x)

Schema

It's quite simple, there are just a few details to pay attention to. As the LED is RGB we need to make sure the right pins are assigned, because they are controlled individually in the code. Sometimes they have a different spec, but usually we have RED – GND – GREEN – BLUE with GND being the longer tail. Screen shot on a pc. In my code I'm using pins RED = 11, GREEN = 10, BLUE = 9. Apple safari pc.

Also, the pins need to be PWM otherwise the 'breathing' effect, that slowly dimmers the LED, won't show. That's why we are using these specific digital pins 9, 10 and 11.

And this is how my breadboard version looks like – I used a half-size breadboard so things might look a bit different, but it's the same thing 🙂

Code

The code basically implements a state machine. The timer phases (WORKING or RESTING) won't start automatically, it needs an input from the user – so the button status is only checked in the loop when the timer is not running.

Workburst 1 2 – A Pomodoro Timer 20 Minutes

It's highly based on the Arduino website examples and documentation.





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