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Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor
Nixon8Pie writes "Know those little self-testing batteries? How would you like to monitor your computers load with them? Well, now ya can. 'These throwaway testers are quite clever: they use a layer of conductive ink that heats up when an electrical current runs through it, in combination with a layer of thermally-activated dye that turns transparent when heated up, revealing a third layer of colored ink underneath. Because the layers are printed with varying thickness from "0%" to "100%", parts of them become yellow before others, creating a bargraph effect that varies with the current applied, the battery's body itself sinking the heat produced by the conductive ink.' Pretty cool stuff."
... to keep our French friend's bandwidth down... ;)
http://home.cfl.rr.com/fnords/duracell_cpumon/
I hope my ISP doesn't kill me...
"Here's a battery which you can wear out, even before you put it in your flashlight! You don't have to worry about shelf-life or temperature anymore, just squeeze the ends and you have a dead battery. No muss, no fuss, just two minutes from package to trashcan."
what are you talking about?
You can't drain the whole battery with a voltage tester in two minutes. It would take half an hour if you just shorted it out to drain it.
OBVIOUSLY, the tester is there to check to see if those batteries you threw in the drawer months ago are still good.
DUH
boo ya! I knew I made the right choice opening the article instead of going for first post! HA HA I can see all the pretty pictures, I WIN IT!
l _cpumon/download/duracell_cpumon-0.0.1.tar.gz, which of course will already be slashdotted by the time you click on it.
ps the admin is pcoupard at easyconnect.fr, so send him money to buy a bigger webserver. Or if you just want to mock the french.
And more importantly, the link to download the driver for the monitor is http://webperso.easyconnect.fr/om.the/web/duracel
mirror with the pictures...
here
How many computers are too many?