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A computer-case LED display freed from its proprietary app
An HN comment about reversing the display's protocol so it works without the vendor's software.
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A Hacker News commenter's computer case has an LED display for CPU and GPU temperatures that only worked with the maker's Windows app, and Wine couldn't access the sensors. With Claude, some Python and a few hours of probing sensor data, they reverse engineered how the software talks to the display and wrote their own simple driver.
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From a passing comment or social post, so the details are thin.
- Hacker News: I did something similar with an LED display on my computer case. The display required a proprietary HN commenter: WojtkiePosted
The comment describing the process.