Chippy

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Inspiration

We miss our childhood Tamagotchi and wanted to build something similar (and hopefully useful). We also like to use the Pomodoro Timer Online, but would prefer something offline and cute. Ultimately, we wanna build something fun as Claire just had her midterms this Saturday morning (and probably failed haiya).

What it does

Chippy is a simple pomodoro timer. While you work, Chippy will be jumping and acting cute so that you don't feel lonely while you're working.

How we built it

Using Python and Tkinter

Challenges we ran into

We spend a bit too much time trying to figure out how to set a transparent background on Tkinter, turns out we can't (on Mac at least).

Also, neither of us did a desktop app in Python before. I wonder why we chose Python.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Managed to finish the project???

What we learned

Coding in Python!

Also, we made our first pixel art

What's next for Chippy

• Chippy can "grow up" after a few pomodoro sessions
• Add animations, e.g. Chippy goes to sleep on rest mode
• Friendly reminder from Chippy to drink water and take breaks from working
• Able to edit the time (right now we're only able to edit it through code lolol)

How to run

git clone https://github.com/Clairverbot/Chippy
cd Chippy
python3 main.py

(This is built on Mac and some tkinter features might be different on other OS!)

Built With

• python
• tkinter