Blog – BUSY Bar

Project Update: Dec 2025

Project Update: Dec 2025

We’re Team BUSY, creating tools and apps to help you stay focused. In this blog, we’re sharing updates on BUSY Bar — an advanced focus timer with a color LED display, distraction-blocking features, smart home integration, and HTTP API. As we progress towards launch, we want to share

Evolving the Pomodoro timer with BUSY Bar

Evolving the Pomodoro timer with BUSY Bar

BUSY Bar is a device designed to help improve your focus, enhance your rest time, and eliminate digital distractions from your daily routine. A big way in which it does that is through enhancing the Pomodoro technique: a method for creating better focus and productivity by splitting tasks into 25-

How to Make BUSY Bar Widgets Without Coding

How to Make BUSY Bar Widgets Without Coding

BUSY Bar is an advanced focus timer with distraction-blocking features and smart home integration. In this post, we’ll show how to create practical widgets for it. It’s not just for developers: anyone can do it. Here you’ll learn how to: * Display images and text on the

The New Design of BUSY Bar

The New Design of BUSY Bar

BUSY Bar — a productivity multi-tool and modern Pomodoro timer with distraction-blocking features. The device has received plenty of updates since our last prototype two years ago. Its look and features are being finalized as we manufacture our first test batch — we reveal it all in this update. Stick

Assembling and Launching the Prototype

Assembling and Launching the Prototype

BUSY Bar is a desktop LED display that beautifully communicates to others things that matter to you. Show that you’re busy, activate a Pomodoro timer, or display inside jokes to your friends. In this article, I present an overview of BUSY Bar prototype assembly, an innovative use of automotive

Uncovering Mechanical and Electrical Components

Uncovering Mechanical and Electrical Components

This is the third chapter of our journey building BUSY Bar. Previous parts [1], [2]. BUSY Bar is a portable LED device that beautifully visualizes the user’s active status and could serve as a Pomodoro timer. We’re building it for productivity and creative minds. Users can integrate the

Choosing LEDs and Updating Design

Choosing LEDs and Updating Design

This is the second post about BUSY BAR. The beginning of our journey is here. BUSY Bar is a portable LED panel that visualizes the user’s active status and can serve as a Pomodoro timer. We’re building it for productivity and creative minds. With an open-source approach

The Making of BUSY Bar

The Making of BUSY Bar

I am tired of being constantly distracted by colleagues who don’t let me concentrate on my tasks. I used the Pomodoro technique to stay focused, however, the technique becomes useless if my colleagues are unaware I am in focus mode. I tried to find a tool to let everyone