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

Posted by arcaege 16 hours ago

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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Comment by thenthenthen 7 hours ago

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!

Comment by KerrickStaley 4 hours ago

I think someone also made this for MacBooks: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Comment by LoganDark 4 hours ago

Newer MacBooks have IMUs as well for the movement dots feature (used to help with screen sickness in vehicles)

Comment by embedding-shape 13 hours ago

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

Comment by fwipsy 10 hours ago

> pitch depends on position of hinge > volume depends on how fast you adjust it

Yeah, I had the same thought - in all the creaky doors I've seen, pitch and speed go together.

Comment by arcaege 5 hours ago

Yes I did test that too! It seemed to sound a little nicer this way though, more cartoonish

Comment by faeyanpiraat 15 hours ago

Chewbacca door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMn-9lbwl0w

Comment by artisinal 7 hours ago

Awesome. This reminds me of the fun apps we had when the MacBook and iPhone got released.

Comment by jedbrooke 10 hours ago

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 :)

Comment by 1bpp 15 hours ago

It finally feels premium. This is really funny

Comment by cadamsdotcom 7 hours ago

Very cool. Could make it be higher pitch & louder when closed faster :)

Comment by bitwize 10 hours ago

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.