Keep Tabs on Claude with the Cute, Animated Clawdmeter

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A good AI-powered coding assistant can give an engineer a decent boost in productivity, but it’s important to keep a close eye on usage levels. Those tokens don’t come cheap, and you don’t want any nasty surprises on your bill at the end of the month. Even if you have a fixed-price plan, you don’t want to find yourself running out of code completions when you need them the most.

Hermann Björgvin has come up with a clever way to monitor Claude Code usage. It is a dedicated device called Clawdmeter that makes it easy to see exactly where you stand at a glance. The device even has some cute animations to keep you informed if you’d prefer that over traditional progress indicators.

The animation moves faster as usage increases (📷: Hermann Björgvin)

The Clawdmeter only requires a single hardware platform: a Waveshare ESP32-S3 2.16-inch AMOLED Display Development Board. It...

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