The system is a timer that begins upon the detection of a nearby object. This could be used in a variety of situations. The one we imagined when designing the system is to remind the user of a task they had set near the timer, such as a pot of water that needs to boil. The system uses a VL53L0X ranging sensor to detect if an object is nearby, and uses a Nokia 5510 display to display information to the user. To communicate with these devices, SPI and I2c communication protocols are used. In the future, the design could be improved by redesigning the PCB and enclosure to have a smaller footprint, so the design can be more compact and cheaper to produce. The object detection sensor could also be replaceable with a variety of different sensors, such as a weight sensor or a sensor that triggers when a specific sound frequency is detected.