I've been building water cooling PCs for some years and lately focusing mostly on SFF builds. Anyway, long story short, working with mini ITX motherboards created a problem.. no TEMP headers on most of them. Even full ATX ones don't have any anymore unless you go into the very premium sector.. and that comes with other headaches.
So I wanted to solve this problem once and for all and decided to build a small controller that supports water temperature readings out of the box and not being OS / BIOS dependent at all.
It's an open source/open hardware solution available for download on [GitHub](https://github.com/kennycoder/waku-ctl). Parts are mostly off the shelf components, available from mouser, digikey, and similar shops.
Happy to answer any questions and I hope this is useful to someone!
I've been building water cooling PCs for some years and lately focusing mostly on SFF builds. Anyway, long story short, working with mini ITX motherboards created a problem.. no TEMP headers on most of them. Even full ATX ones don't have any anymore unless you go into the very premium sector.. and that comes with other headaches.
So I wanted to solve this problem once and for all and decided to build a small controller that supports water temperature readings out of the box and not being OS / BIOS dependent at all.
It's an open source/open hardware solution available for download on [GitHub](https://github.com/kennycoder/waku-ctl). Parts are mostly off the shelf components, available from mouser, digikey, and similar shops.
Happy to answer any questions and I hope this is useful to someone!