Sometimes inspiration is like a flash of lightning, out of the blue.

That was the case this past week as I pondered the aesthetics of the on-screen gauge I made for my last project, the Steampunk Conference Badge. You may recall the rather crude dial and pointer I built which took input from the ultrasonic range finder and displayed the distance to an object on the gauge:

It’s basic and plain. Not only that, the look of that gauge doesn’t really fit the theme of the Steampunk conference badge. We can do better and people appreciate that extra little attention to detail.

Today we’ll look at how to put any dial you’d like on your on-screen gauges. The technique works on a wearable LCD, as well as, a full-sized monitor.

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