Introduction: To-Do List Tracker

This is a fun little device where you can push the plus button to add lights that represent items on your to-do list. Then you can push the minus button each time you finish something on your to-do list and it plays a noise to congratulate you. When you finish everything on your list it plays a song.

Supplies

  • Circuit Playground
  • USB Connecting Cable
  • Battery
  • 2 Sheets of Yellow Felt
  • 1 Sheet of Orange Felt
  • 1 Sheet of Pink Felt
  • Needle and Thread
  • Hot Glue

Step 1: Code the Circuit Playground

  • Here is a link to my code.
  • You can change the colors of the lights if you desire.
  • Download the code onto your circuit playground.

Step 2: Print Out Template

Print out this template for cutting out the felt.

Attachments

Step 3: Cut Out Felt

Pin the circle to the yellow felt and cut out. Pin the star to the orange felt and cut out.

Step 4: Attach Circuit Playground to Felt

  • Sew the circuit playground onto the center of the orange felt using loops on either side of the playground.
  • Cut a small hole in the orange felt where the battery pack connects to the playground.
  • Plug the battery cord into the circuit playground through the hole, so that the playground is on one side of the felt and the battery is on the other.

Step 5: Attach Yellow Felt to Orange Felt

  • Place the yellow felt in the center of the orange felt so it covers the circuit playground completely.
  • Sew in place.

Step 6: Connect to Other Piece of Yellow Felt

  • Use a little bit of hot glue to connect the battery to the backside of the orange felt to keep it in place.
  • Make sure the on/off switch is on the outside.
  • Place everything on a piece of yellow felt, battery facing down and the circuit playground facing up.
  • Use the hot glue to glue each triangle of the star to the yellow felt beneath it, enclosing the battery inside.
  • Sew the orange felt onto the yellow felt underneath.
  • Cut out the yellow felt in the same shape as the orange star, leaving a little bit of excess all around.

Step 7: Glue on Plus Sign and Minus Sign

  • Cut out a small plus sign and minus sign from the pink felt.
  • Hot glue the plus sign onto the top yellow felt on top of the A button on the playground.
  • Hot glue the minus sign onto the top yellow felt on top of the B button on the playground.