Add Ecosystem survey; expand Ideas with unique-angle shortlist
Ecosystem.md synthesises ~2 hours of prior-art research across
Hackaday, GitHub, Hackster, Tindie, Etsy, and Home Assistant
community. Covers:
- Direct cousins: Liam Jackson's CI tachometer dashboard, McLear's
AstraDash (Astra GTE -> Home Assistant), Evan's kegerator, the
wider steampunk-voltmeter + ESPHome pattern.
- Adjacent projects: Ecasti's PrometheusClient on ESP32 (the
digital cousin), r00li/CarCluster, the YouTube/Twitch counter
and crypto ticker patterns (all digital, no needle variants).
- Hardware building blocks: SwitecX25 library, nsocwx reference
build, TheRengineer driver PCB, motorcycle tachometers as a V1
shortcut, vintage voltmeter cases from Etsy.
- Middleware options: ESPHome for a fast firmware path, Grafana
dashboard 25052, claude-code-monitoring-guide.
- Uniqueness matrix showing where claude-gauge genuinely contributes
(LLM telemetry first, thinking-ratio gauge, model-indicator
annunciator, dual-architecture portability, replicable enclosure,
character metrics, physical-observability framing).
- Concrete "what to borrow" shortlist.
Ideas.md rewrites the hardware-wild-ideas section into a
unique-angle shortlist with fuller treatments for each: physical
model-selector knob, swappable faces per mode, daily reset chime,
tactile feedback, per-project LED strip, cluster-to-cluster sync,
physical commit button, audio feedback (toggle), second cluster
as historical companion.
Home.md page index updated to link Ecosystem.