Claude Code · Anthropic · Claude · GitHub · TechCrunch AI
Because Clawdmeter is an open source project, anyone can fork it to add their own features, animations, screens
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Silicon Valley’s tokenmaing era now has its own hardware.
Key facts
- Haraldsson says he was surprised to see that over 800 people have starred it on GitHub since its May 10 launch, and 50 have already forked the project for their own development
- 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
- But Claude could walk him through the project in a few days, he said
- Meanwhile, two other side buttons send Space and Shift+Tab over Bluetooth for Claude Code’s voice mode and mode-toggle shortcuts
Summary
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 tokenmaing. As one Reddit user joked when seeing the project for the first time: “At this point, Anthropic should 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.