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Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard
Silicon Valley’s tokenmaxxing era now has its own hardware. A new open source project brings your Claude Code utilization stats into a tiny desktop dashboard, allowing AI power users to keep an eye on their usage. Sure, you can track Claude Code usage directly in the terminal using commands or other external tools and apps, but that’s not as fun as seeing a pixel-art version of the Clawd sprite dance on a screen before showing at-a-glance token usage info, is it? The “Clawdmeter,” as the device is called, is both a fun side project for AI power users and a timely indication of how thoroughly Anthropic’s Claude has infiltrated the developer community and the growing interest in tokenmaxxing. This new “productivity” trend sees software engineers at various tech companies maximizing the number of AI tokens consumed at work as a measure of how much they’ve embraced AI. As one Reddit user joked when seeing the project for the first time: “At this point, Anthropic should just mail these to us for free.” Another suggested adding a button to increase capacity or top up more tokens using your card on file. (Ha, that could be dangerous!) The idea for the project comes from Reykjavik, Iceland-based software developer Hermann Haraldsson, who says he had always wanted to play around with embedded devices, but never before had the time. “I’m not an embedded developer or anything like that,” Haraldsson told TechCrunch in a call. But Claude was able to walk him through the project in just a few days, he said. “It’s really democratized access to programming, so that anyone can now do what developers used to do. I think that’s really positive, actually.” Most of the time he spent building the device was focused on design, making sure to get the font, colors, and little animations just right. To build your own dashboard, you can use a small lithium-ion battery-powered display like the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.16, which pairs with your laptop over Bluetooth. When the device is turned on, the splash screen plays pixel-art Clawd animations that get busier as your usage rate climbs. You can also push the middle button to cycle through different types of animations if you choose. “I like it when I’m working, and I see it going crazy — it’s like a little dopamine loop,” notes Haraldsson. The animation remains on the screen until you press the middle button, which then displays your session and weekly Claude utilization data in simple charts. You can press this ...
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Claude Code Usage Monitor: Stop the Tuesday Burn
A Claude Code usage monitor tracks token consumption, burn rate, cost estimates, and time-to-limit projections. Five community tools (ccusage, Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor, ccflare, claude-doctor, ccstatusline) all rely on parsing local Claude Code JSONL session files because that was the only public surface most predate.
Clawdmeter - A DIY ESP32-S3 desk dashboard for Claude Code token usage ...
Clawdmeter - A DIY ESP32-S3 desk dashboard for Claude Code token usage monitoring Clawdmeter is a DIY ESP32-S3-powered desk dashboard that displays Claude Code token usage on a 2.16-inch AMOLED screen so you know when you're about to reach the limits in real time.
