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What we’re making
A big button that sits on a desk. You pick a Thing you want to do more often — drink water, practice guitar, homework, anything — and every time you do it, you press the button.
The press goes over Wi‑Fi to this website, which keeps count and tells you You did a thing. Over a few weeks the presses add up to a picture of what you actually did.
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How we’re building it
Together, one piece at a time. Inside there’s an ESP32 — a tiny computer with Wi‑Fi built in — wired to a big red arcade button. Getting the two talking meant soldering, which is what Evelyn is doing in the pictures above.
Then there’s the code: a small program on the button that sends each press, and this website, which turns the presses into something you can look at.
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Where it is now
We’ve built five Thing Buttons so far, each wired by hand, and they work: press one, and a moment later the website says so.
It isn’t for sale. It’s a project, not a store — and the fun part is building it.
— Evelyn & Chris