Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

92 points - yesterday at 8:33 PM


I was poking through the iio devices on my Framework the other day and turns out Framework 12s have a pretty accurate hinge angle sensor! So I made a version of LidAngleSensor (https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor) but for the Framework 12 on Linux, so you can make your hinge sound rusty

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embedding-shape yesterday at 11:22 PM
That's really fun and cool! :) I was hoping the sound would also be sped up/down (or change of pitch perhaps would work better) as you moved the hinge faster/slower, so you could do that really slow "tack-tack-tack" sound like when you move a really heavy door on a worn hinge really slow
thenthenthen today at 6:08 AM
On mac you can (could?) use the ambient light sensor to achieve something similar, proof of concept here (osx < 10.5 haha): https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/then/squeeky-laptop

Demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzJwDs6KRXA&ra=m

iirc there is also a imu in some macbooks to detect a fall and park the hdd heads before the crash? Anyway, always happy to see toys like this!

faeyanpiraat yesterday at 9:49 PM
janrakete today at 7:10 PM
It reminds me of how, back in school, we used to replace the sound that played when Windows shut down with fart sounds.
artisinal today at 5:47 AM
Awesome. This reminds me of the fun apps we had when the MacBook and iPhone got released.
1bpp yesterday at 9:45 PM
It finally feels premium. This is really funny
jedbrooke today at 2:20 AM
from the readme:

> the filtering is optimised for framework 12's hinge stiffness.

never in a million years would I expect to have to optimize software for a given hinge stiffness, this made me chuckle just reading it

also:

> why

> funny

I like that :)

cadamsdotcom today at 5:13 AM
Very cool. Could make it be higher pitch & louder when closed faster :)
bitwize today at 3:03 AM
I'm reminded of the hacks for old ThinkPads that read the accelerometer used to detect drops and park the disk heads; by slapping the machine on either side, you could switch to the next or previous desktop.
DonHopkins yesterday at 11:58 PM
The Whoopie Laptop
eikenberry today at 1:20 AM
Are you running MacOS on your Framework?