A desk deck for Claude Code.
Plan usage, spend and live sessions on a 9.16" USB panel next to your keyboard. Spotify gets an ASCII flight that moves with the music, the weather and your quotes sit beside it, and you arrange all of it by dragging tiles in your browser.

What's on it

Tile	Shows	From
Claude Code	session and weekly plan usage with reset countdowns, today's tokens and their API-price equivalent	Claude Code's usage endpoint (your own login), ccusage
Spotify	the track playing, over an ASCII tunnel (or a warp starfield) pulsing to the beat	Spotify desktop app; real audio via BlackHole if you want it
Projects today	where today's tokens went and the split between models	Claude Code's session transcripts, read locally
Session	whether Claude is working right now, on what, with which model, how fast	the same transcripts
Outside	clock, sunrise and sunset, weather for your city (tap for 10 days) and two quotes (currencies, crypto or stocks)	Open-Meteo, NBP, Kraken, Yahoo Finance; no keys needed
SYS//CORE (in the tray)	your Mac's load: CPU with a load-average dial, a tower per core (efficiency/performance), the last 90 s as an ASCII sparkline, a memory map, network, swap, uptime	psutil, sampled every second

The footer is today's tokens per hour. Everything except the usage query and the weather/price lookups stays on your Mac.

Arrange it in the editor

http://127.0.0.1:8787/editor (or Edit deck… in the menu bar). Drag tiles to reorder them. Click a tile to change its settings, or to hide it. Hidden tiles and your own modules wait in a tray under the panel. The panel changes as soon as you let go.

The panel has no touch screen, so the live view at http://127.0.0.1:8787/ is the remote. Click the visualizer to switch scenes, or the weather for the forecast:

Hardware

Panel	USB ID	Resolution	Status
Thermalright Trofeo Vision 9.16"	0416:5408	1920×462	✅ what makideck is made on
Thermalright Trofeo Vision 6.86"	0416:5302	1280×480	🟡 driver included, not tested on a real unit

Get the 9.16" if you're buying for this. It's sold as a PC case temperature display, but on a desk clamp or a small stand it's a perfect strip under a monitor. More in docs/hardware.md.

Install

You need macOS, Python 3.12+, uv, Node (for npx ccusage), Claude Code logged in, and:

brew install libusb hidapi
git clone https://github.com/makyox/makideck && cd makideck
uv sync
uv run makideck run --demo --no-panel   # try it without a panel: open http://127.0.0.1:8787/editor
uv run makideck login on                # the menu bar icon at login; it runs the deck

The first real run asks for Keychain access to "Claude Code-credentials" (choose Always Allow). It also asks once whether makideck may control Spotify.

Command
makideck run	drive the panel and serve the live view and editor (--demo, --no-panel)
makideck menubar	the menu bar icon: start/stop, sleep the panel now / at night / never, editor, logs
makideck preview out.png	render a frame from demo data (--view forecast, --live)
makideck login on|off	open the menu bar app at login

Settings that aren't about tiles (frame rate, night hours, web port) go in ~/.config/makideck/config.toml. See config.example.toml. The layout and tile settings live in ~/.config/makideck/deck.json, and logs go to ~/Library/Logs/makideck/.

Make the visualizer hear the music

Without extra setup the tunnel follows a beat derived from the track. To make it react to the actual sound:

brew install blackhole-2ch
swift tools/multi_output.swift      # "Deck Output" = your speakers + BlackHole, set as output

Bass then drives the flight speed, kicks flash the rings and mids twist the tunnel.

Write your own tile

A tile is one Python file in ~/.config/makideck/tiles/:

from makideck.deck import Ctx, Field, Tile, register
from makideck.render import theme

def render(c: Ctx) -> None:
    c.d.text((c.left, 26), c.settings["greeting"].upper(), font=theme.sans(18), fill=theme.DIM)

register(Tile("hello", "Hello", 300, render,
              fields=(Field("greeting", "Greeting"),), defaults={"greeting": "hi"}))

It shows up in the editor's tray, and its settings form is built from fields. docs/tiles.md covers drawing, data sources, taps, full-screen views and animation. examples/countdown.py is a complete tile.

Credits

• thermalright-trcc-linux did the hard part: reverse-engineering the panels' USB protocols. makideck uses its device classes.
• ccusage for token and cost accounting.
• Open-Meteo, NBP, Kraken, Yahoo Finance and GIG (meteo.gig.eu) for the outside world.
• The idea of a Claude usage strip on a cheap LCD comes from the "$38 Claude LCD Table Display" post on r/ClaudeAI.

makideck isn't affiliated with Anthropic, Thermalright or Spotify.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later, the same as trcc, which makideck builds on.