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• this is a critical feature and should be top priority

Let the user know the reset will occur
maybe even with a countdown?

Instead of this block:

if duration == "sec":
    update_display(counter, duration)
    sleep(1)
    counter += 1
elif duration == "min":
    update_display(counter, duration)
    sleep(60)
    counter += 1
elif duration == "hour":
    update_display(counter, duration)
    sleep(3600)
    counter += 1
elif duration == "day":
    update_display(counter, duration)
    sleep(86400)
    counter += 1
else:
    print("error")
    break

You can have a dictionary like:
duration_dict = {"sec":1, "minute":60, "hour":3600, "day":86400}
And then replace the block with:

if duration:
    update_display(counter, duration)
    sleep(duration_dict[duration])
    counter += 1
else:
    print("error")
    break

if event.action == "pressed":
    # Check which direction
    if event.direction == "middle":
        flipped = False # exits the loop
   sense.set_rotation(direction_dict[event.direction])
   sense.show_letter(arrow)    

You could also do:
if event.direction in ["up", "down", "left", "right"]:

Need to upgrade and optimize the following functions

• change()
• update_display()

Instead of using if statements, we can use a dictionary
psuedocode: directionDict ={"up" : 0, "down": 180, etc}
we can set it with sense.set_rotation(directionDict[event.direction])

Currently, single digits are shown via sense.show_letter(), which can handle single letters
We can not use this when we use numbers >= 10, so we have a workaround of using sense.show_message()
we need to fix this since sense.show_message() scrolls the value past and this is problematic for any time greater than a second

Required:
Allow the script to launch on startup so that just powering on the pi is sufficient to begin the program

the program breaks when the counter goes past 99
Need to find a way to handle that. maybe error handling?

An issue is that you have to pick the time periods
A request for a new feature is to start the timer and it automatically changes the time period
if 60s, period = minute
if 60m, period = hour
if 24h, period = day

You can give functions decorations like:
def change(canvas:list, paint:list) -> None:
Then when you hover your mouse over change it'll show you the inputs/output types and the -> is the return type