It’s really never too early (or too late) to learn time management. All joking aside, carefully managing one’s time can result in some really wondrous achievements. So it’s best to learn early, when most of your time is spent generally having fun.
Let’s say you’ve just heard you have five minutes left to play, but what does that mean if you’re three years old? Not much, unless you have some visual cues to go by. That’s the idea behind [Julius Curt]’s visual timer for toddlers.
This lovely reverse progress bar uses a Wemos D1 mini to control a strip of six WS2812B LEDs at 30 LEDs/meter density. There’s a small OLED display for literate users, and the whole thing is childproof. [Julius] challenged himself to do this entire project in one day, and ended up finishing it in a little over eight hours total, including time to design the way cool knob. Be sure to check out the build video below.
If you struggle with managing your time, check out our own [Arya Voronova]’s personal account.
when my daughter were toddlers I would tell them “X cartoon{s)” or “Y movie(s)” to define lengths of time.
When we took roadtrips I would tell her a trip was “X fingers long” and whenever we had driven an appropriate distance I would hold up my hand and say “ONE finger down”
Putting things into a perspective she could understand removed a lot of “are we there yet?” “how much longer?” etc
Interesting! I wonder how “5 fingers long” would have worked with my daughter waay back when.
that is how I measure my whiskey now that I have kids.
5 fingers at a time.
Genuinely curius, in what way exactly is this thing childproof?