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+# Tempino, the Arduino sensors display
+Software for the Tempino Arduino project, that allows you to monitor temperatures and fan speed in 
+a nicely displayed way, using Adafruit and clones LCD screens. You'll need Adafruit's GFX Library 
+https://github.com/adafruit/TFTLCD-Library for the arduino project in client/tempino and the
+python script requirements are in it's own requirements.txt file for you to create a virtualenv.
+
+# How it works
+We just open the serial port (over the USB) and send a string with the information, that the Arduino
+then shows up on its screen. The "server" can be closed with Ctrl-C.
+
+You can see it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGLoJ1REsmY
+
+# License
+
+All this code is GPL'd.