PC Meter Download & More
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the Device | Arduino Code | Desktop
Application | Download & More
Download
Click here to download everything in a ZIP
file. It has several folders, as follows:
- arduino - contains the Arduino code
- meter face - contains the Inkskape file and PNG exports for the meter
faces
- PcMeter - The Windows application compiled and ready to use
- PcMeterSln - Source code for the Windows application developed in
Visual Studio 2010.
Credits / External Links
The idea for this project and the information needed to complete it (and
some code) came from several sources, including:
- Show
pc stats on analog gauges – great article with lots of info on
interfacing with analog gauges. It’s based on a PIC
microcontroller, but much of the info applies regardless of the
microcontroller used. It uses the LCD
Smartie application to send data over the serial port to the
microcontroller. I considered doing this myself before writing my
own application. However, development on LCD Smartie appears to have
stalled which concerned me, and I wanted to try out the
PerformanceCounter class anyways.
- Arduino
Analog Gauge – Project that drives meters based on PC stats using
an Arduino microcontroller. It is based on the previously
mentioned article and also uses LCD Smartie.
- Arduino: Showing CPU load
with 9 LEDs! – This project uses LEDs to display CPU load rather
than a meter, but it uses a C#.Net application to drive the meter, which
I referred to as I learned to do it myself.
- GetPerformanceInfo
by Antonio Bakula – this is the code I use to get the memory stats. See
this
stack overflow post as well.
- Michael
Sorens' excellent guide and framework for creating system tray
applications in C# was crucial to version 2.0 of my application.
Since building this project, I've heard from others who've made their
own, some using code/ideas that I developed. I love hearing about it, so
let me know if you have! Here's a couple I know of:
- mnedix
created a really cool nixie tube CPU/memory
indicator that runs off the desktop application I wrote. Very
cool!
- Hayden Thring created
a PC meter and rewrote my Arduino code, making several
improvements that inspired version 2 of my program.
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Originally posted 3/22/2018; Last updated 5/8/2018