Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives if You Do

The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– your smartphone. We’ve seen a number of projects that try and help people control or moderate their phone usage using a variety of techniques; this vitual pet by [brenpoly] does it by weponizing human empathy, and our bizzare ability to pack-bond with literally anything. The virtual pet itself is based on an ESP32 in a cutesy 3D-printed case, and