Automatic Attendance Machines for Staff in the Politeknik Negeri Samarinda

— To improve the quality of education among Politeknik Negeri Samarinda, one of them is by controlling the attendance list of teaching staff so that a system is created to control the attendance list of teaching staff automatically where the input of teaching staff attendance data entered on the computer in each study program can be directly read on the main computer. There are two advantages of making automatic attendance machines for teaching staff in the Politeknik Negeri Samarinda environment, including the ease of controlling the attendance list of teaching staff andtTime and energy efficiency. The methodology used in this study is product design which includes preliminary design, design development and final design. The result obtained is an attendance machine that uses a touch screen system and can also be used to provide important information needed