[Murphy’s_Lawyer] had some empty space on the wall in his kitchen, so he decided to fill it with a whirring Steampunk gizmo: an Arduino-driven steam gauge. The build began as an old 10 ...

The idea behind the project is simple: take a stepper motor, put a needle on it, and connect it to an Arduino. Instant analog gauge, measuring anything an Arduino can calculate.

Rather than use the Arduino to send signals to a few pins, the game modder decided to hook up the gauge cluster to a USB interface and completely simulate the factory messages which would be sent ...