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[MarcoTexture]

This is a small holiday project that I worked on months ago.

The concept behind it is to monitor computer internals while gaming without using an overlay.

It consists of a 20x4 LCD + Arduino nano + Bluetooth module + LED bar graph.

and I've written a simple c# app which grabs (cpu/gpu usage,temp,ram usage etc..) and forward it to the arduino via bluetooth.

the LED bar graph acts as an audio vu meter. there is an additional rgb led which is used to either generate effects or as an indication of overall temperature level.

 

 

I've used openhardwaremonitor library and WMI(Windows management instrumentation) to obtain the readouts.

 

I've discontinued the project because the gpu clock reading were not accurate enough when I switched from nvidia to amd(openhardwaremonitor library) and the whole c# app was using serial comm. which resulted in stability issues even after I used multiple threads to handle it. Anyways this came out to be useful again for testing dx12 titles where normal overlay programs didn't work.

[Huntsman]

I think Luke was looking for something like this a few months back... You'll have to dig through the post in this subforum for that. Something about rpi projects I think..