Open-source ESP32-S3 touchscreen dashboard for PC and room telemetry.
It displays CPU/GPU usage and temperature, RAM, network traffic, disk I/O, plus optional room temperature and humidity from I²C sensors.
The UI has a monochrome standby mode and a full-color active dashboard inspired by the PCB layout underneath the screen. Tapping a metric opens a detailed history view.
A lightweight Windows agent sends PC telemetry over USB serial. The firmware uses ESP-IDF + LVGL.
To keep setup simple, the installer runs locally and opens in a Chromium-based browser such as Chrome or Edge. From there, the ESP32 can be flashed directly through Web Serial — no ESP-IDF or PlatformIO setup is required just to try it.
English and French are supported.
Still a v0.1 prototype: exposed wiring, no enclosure yet, Windows only and AMD GPU support for now.
Firmware, agent, installer and hardware documentation are all open source.
After several weeks of development, the first public beta of DeskNode is now available.
The current prototype combines an ESP32-S3 touchscreen, USB PC telemetry, optional room sensors, a custom LVGL interface and a simple browser-based installer using Web Serial.
The hardware is still intentionally prototype-grade — exposed wiring and no enclosure yet — but the firmware, Windows agent, installer and build documentation are now public.