Build your very own PC monitoring gauges with USB, ingenuity
If you've never tracked down just the right desktop widget to display your PC vitals, perhaps analog gauges are your last hope at harmony with processor utilization. DIY Life has a nice how-to on how to hack your very own old-school gauges to work off of USB and, you know, gauge stuff. Unfortunately, the hack is pretty involved -- we set ten of our finest interns to the task, and only three of them made it back with all their appendages intact -- but don't let that frighten you too much, our interns are a rowdy lot.
