FancyDrew Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 Hello, I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I've been searching but couldn't find any topic on this. I'm brainstorming a case mod for a custom water cooled pc I'm planning, based on a B17 flight engineer's station. I'm planning on covering the facia with servo driven gauges for things like CPU speed, voltage, and temp, pump speed, etc. Could I use AIDA64's display options, after being fed through a microcontroller, to do this? I'll be using Aquacomputer's Aquaero products, as well, including Aquasuite. Thanks for your time. Quote
Fiery Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 It would be a quite complicated project First of all, you have to develop the hardware + firmware to drive the gauges using a microcontroller. Then you have to connect each gauge to your PC via a standard interface. Considering you would have multiple gauges, using USB, LPT or RS232 may not be the best idea, unless you drive multiple gauges from a single connection. But, even after you've solved the hardware side, you would have to develop a Windows driver and software as well, to process the data coming from AIDA64 and send it to the gauges. Regards, Fiery Quote
FancyDrew Posted August 19, 2015 Author Posted August 19, 2015 That certainly sounds detailed. I've found a couple projects that could drive a couple gauges, built using an open source lcd display, the use of which is detailed below. I found an Arduino expansion board on adafruit's website that can drive 16 servos, and scales up. Arduino project: http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2008/02/12/arduino-analog-gauge/ Original: http://web.archive.org/web/20080204005006/http://www.diylife.com/2008/02/02/show-pc-stats-on-analog-gauges/ LCD Smartie: http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/ Wish me luck Quote
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