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googly

A standalone desk pet for Seth's desk at Google. Arduino Mega 2560 + 3.5" UNO-form 8-bit ILI9486 touch shield. Plug into any USB power brick and it lives: a big expressive face (Cozmo/EVE style) that blinks, looks around, sleeps, and reacts to touch.

• Tap = poke (surprise → happy; rapid pokes → dizzy spiral eyes)
• Long press = pet (closed eyes, blush; hearts if it likes you enough)
• 30 min ignored = sleep (z z z), any touch wakes it
• Rare idle events: sneeze, yawn, watches a fly cross the screen
• One mood value 0–100: interaction raises it, uptime decays it. Persisted in EEPROM (write-throttled). It sulks but never dies — zero-guilt Tamagotchi.

No network, no host, no SD needed. Face is drawn procedurally with GFX primitives; animation only redraws eye/mouth regions (full-screen redraw is too slow on the 8-bit bus).