Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard
Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard
Clawdmeter 将你的 Claude Code 使用统计数据变成桌面小仪表盘
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?
硅谷的“Token 最大化”（tokenmaxxing）时代如今有了自己的硬件。一个全新的开源项目将你的 Claude Code 使用统计数据呈现在一个微型桌面仪表盘上，让 AI 高级用户能够随时监控自己的使用情况。当然，你完全可以通过终端命令或其他外部工具来追踪 Claude Code 的使用量，但看着像素风的 Clawd 精灵在屏幕上跳舞，随后显示一目了然的 Token 使用信息，难道不比那更有趣吗？
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!)
这款名为“Clawdmeter”的设备，既是 AI 高级用户的一个趣味副业项目，也及时反映了 Anthropic 的 Claude 在开发者社区中的渗透程度，以及人们对“Token 最大化”日益增长的兴趣。这种新的“生产力”趋势表现为：各科技公司的软件工程师们正通过最大化工作中的 AI Token 消耗量，来衡量自己对 AI 的拥抱程度。正如一位 Reddit 用户在首次看到该项目时开玩笑说：“到了这个地步，Anthropic 真该把这些设备免费寄给我们。”另有人建议增加一个按钮，以便通过绑定的银行卡直接增加容量或充值 Token。（哈哈，那可就危险了！）
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.”
该项目的构思来自冰岛雷克雅未克的软件开发者 Hermann Haraldsson。他表示自己一直想尝试嵌入式设备，但此前从未有时间。Haraldsson 在接受 TechCrunch 采访时说：“我并不是什么嵌入式开发人员。”但他表示，Claude 在短短几天内就引导他完成了整个项目。“它真正实现了编程的民主化，让任何人都能做以前只有开发者才能做的事。我认为这实际上是非常积极的。”
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.
他在构建设备时，大部分时间都花在了设计上，确保字体、颜色和微动画效果恰到好处。要制作自己的仪表盘，你可以使用像 Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.16 这样的小型锂电池供电显示屏，并通过蓝牙与笔记本电脑配对。设备开启时，启动画面会播放像素风的 Clawd 动画，随着你的使用率攀升，动画会变得更加忙碌。你还可以按下中间的按钮，根据需要切换不同类型的动画。
“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 button again to cycle to the Bluetooth screen, which displays the connection status and offers a reset feature. From there, you can tap the screen to return to the original splash screen animation.
“我喜欢在工作时看到它疯狂运行的样子——这就像一个多巴胺循环，”Haraldsson 说道。动画会一直停留在屏幕上，直到你按下中间的按钮，此时屏幕会以简单的图表显示你当前的会话和每周的 Claude 使用数据。再次按下该按钮可切换到蓝牙界面，显示连接状态并提供重置功能。在此界面点击屏幕，即可返回最初的启动动画。
Meanwhile, two other side buttons send Space and Shift+Tab over Bluetooth for Claude Code’s voice mode and mode-toggle shortcuts. The latter lets you move between the default Normal mode, “Accept Edits” mode, Plan Mode, and Auto Mode. Haraldsson says the device keeps up with your usage limits because it reads your Claude Code OAuth token to make an API call, which then pulls the usage numbers from the response headers directly.
与此同时，另外两个侧边按钮可以通过蓝牙发送“空格”和“Shift+Tab”指令，用于 Claude Code 的语音模式和模式切换快捷键。后者允许你在默认的“正常模式”、“接受编辑模式”、“计划模式”和“自动模式”之间切换。Haraldsson 表示，该设备能够跟上你的使用限额，因为它会读取你的 Claude Code OAuth Token 来发起 API 调用，从而直接从响应头中提取使用数据。
Because Clawdmeter is an open source project, anyone can fork it to add their own features, animations, screens, and more, based on their particular interests and needs. 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. He suspects the device appeals to them because it has a nostalgic feel.
由于 Clawdmeter 是一个开源项目，任何人都可以根据自己的兴趣和需求对其进行分支（Fork），添加自定义功能、动画、屏幕等。Haraldsson 表示，自 5 月 10 日发布以来，GitHub 上已有超过 800 人为其加星，50 人已经 Fork 了该项目进行二次开发，这让他感到非常惊讶。他推测，这款设备之所以吸引人，是因为它带有一种怀旧感。
“There’s a kind of nostalgia for when you used to have a hardware device for everything — like a Walkman to play music, or an iPod,” says Haraldsson. (Or, as one Redditor put it, the Clawdmeter is like a “hardware Tamagotchi for my context window.”) “I know it’s not replacing anything — like, you could have this on your computer — but it’s just fun,” Haraldsson says.
“人们对过去那种‘万物皆有硬件’的时代有一种怀旧情结——比如用 Walkman 听音乐，或者用 iPod，”Haraldsson 说。（或者正如一位 Reddit 用户所言，Clawdmeter 就像是“我上下文窗口的电子宠物”。）“我知道它并没有取代任何东西——比如你完全可以在电脑上查看这些数据——但它就是很有趣，”Haraldsson 说道。