VB.NET Original Program

So I finally had an idea for an original program. A hardware information program. Original I know right? Anyway I'm taking a shot at doing it through reading the registry but I'm pretty sure there isn't muhc but some basic CPU information that I can get. I've been looking online and I've found that I might need to use the WMI API as that has tonnes of hardware information at my disposal. I will have tp try that tomorrow I guess.