• PhatStats  PC performance monitor  &  HardwareSerialMonitor  Windows Client  

by Rupert Hirst and Colin Conway

This project, assumes you have above average experience with Arduino, the IDE, compatible boards available and other related hardware.

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Project principles:

The HardwareSerialMonitor application  detects the sensors of most modern PC graphics, CPU and motherboards whilst, also pooling windows hardware stats.

This data is then sent over a serial com port to an Arduino Microcontroller running the GnatStats Sketch and displayed on the OLED/TFT display.

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Compatible boards:

•     Wemos ESP32 LoLin32 / Lite / D32
•    Adafruit QT-PY / Seed Studio XIAO Series  

         Seeed Studio     SAMD21 MCU:  https://www.seeedstudio.com/Seeeduino-XIAO-Arduino-Microcontroller-SAMD21-Cortex-M0+-p-4426.html

         Seeed Studio     RP2040 MCU:   https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-RP2040-v1-0-p-5026.html

         Seeed Studio NRF52840 MCU:  https://www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-XIAO-BLE-nRF52840-p-5201.html

         Seeed Studio    ESP32C3 MCU:  https://www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-XIAO-ESP32C3-p-5431.html

       ATMega 32u4 boards are more suited to (OLED) GnatStats .  They do not have the required memory for (TFT) PhatStats.

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Compatible Screens:

 TFT :    ILI9341 (SPi) 320x240 Pixel TFT Displays

Library and MCU core links are included within the Arduino sketch.

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Notes:

•               Plug the Arduino into a dedicated USB Port, try avoid using a USB hub. Timings can be critical to avoid garbled or corrupted screen info

•               HardwareSerialMonitor was designed for dedicated GPU's . Your mileage will vary with Integrated Graphics

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Guides:

technopat.net: Making an External Temperature Gauge

technopat.net: Additional Tiny Performance Monitor for a Computer

Technopat YouTube (Turkish)

TallmanLabs: Phat-Stats ILI9341 TFT Display Hook up Guide

SAMM Market

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