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Griftmeter is a 1.28″ round ESP32-C3 desk gauge that shows how much of an AI coding plan has been used, and when it resets. Designed, printed and assembled in house by a small business in Herriman, Utah, one that has been selling products online since 2010.

In one paragraph

A 1.28″ round color LCD on an ESP32-C3 sits in a swappable printed shell. The shells are printed face down on a Bambu P2S, so the artwork is a filament change in the first layers of the print rather than paint, a sticker or a transfer. A small helper program on the user’s own computer reads the usage that Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Cursor already record locally, and pushes a single number to the device over USB, or over the LAN if the user would rather free the port. No account, no cloud service, and no credentials leave the machine. Eighteen shells share one mounting system and swap by hand in seconds.

Why it exists

Subscription AI tools meter usage, and the remaining balance is real but awkward to reach: several clicks into a settings page, or a terminal window you have to keep open. The failure mode is discovering the limit by hitting it, in the middle of something. A dedicated display solves a small problem completely rather than a large problem partly.

How it is made

The interesting constraint is the narrowest line a nozzle can actually lay down. Artwork is separated into a small number of flat color regions, and every region is checked against that limit before it becomes geometry, so nothing in the design is thinner than the printer can produce. The artwork is engraved into the first layers rather than embossed on top, which keeps the face flat and the color changes clean. The display aperture is identical on every shell, which is what lets one mounting system serve all of them.

Compatibility, stated plainly

Works with Claude (Pro and Max), Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot and Cursor. The compatibility page is the live list and carries the date it was last true.

Does not work with the Anthropic API, which is metered per use and has no percentage to display, and does not work with a plain ChatGPT subscription with no Codex.

With no supported tool present the device runs as a clock, analog or digital, in whichever shell is fitted. That is also what it does before the helper program is installed.

Specifications

• 1.28″ round color LCD, 240×240, on an ESP32-C3
• USB-C, powered and fed from the host computer; optional Wi-Fi over the local network
• Shells printed in PLA, multi-color, face-down single-plate printing
• One display aperture across the range; tool-free shell swap
• Runs entirely locally: no account, no cloud, no telemetry

Images

Free to use with credit to Griftmeter. The renders are transparent PNGs, the box shots are photographs. Click any one for the full-size file.

• Terminal, product render. PNG
• Terminal, in the box. JPEG
• Baseline, product render. PNG
• Baseline, in the box. JPEG
• Toaster, product render. PNG
• Parking Meter, product render. PNG
• Parking Meter, in the box. JPEG
• Piggy Bank, product render. PNG
• Piggy Bank, in the box. JPEG
• Cat, product render. PNG
• Cat, in the box. JPEG
• GPU, product render. PNG
• GPU, in the box. JPEG
• Rubber Duck, product render. PNG
• Rubber Duck, in the box. JPEG
• Sentinel, product render. PNG
• Sentinel, in the box. JPEG
• The range, five shells. JPEG

Contact

Mike, Griftmeter, a product of Folcik Innovations, a registered trade name of Folcik Enterprises, LLC
5526 W 13400 S, Unit 325, Herriman, UT 84096, USA
[email protected] · (530) 436-5245

Review units are available with no conditions attached: no required coverage, no approval over what gets written, no embargo.