Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
github.comI 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
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
> 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.
Yes I did test that too! It seemed to sound a little nicer this way though, more cartoonish
I wonder if the sound could be fully synthesized instead of the current 2.9s recording. That's not an easy task, but perhaps the result would sound more realistic.
Chewbacca door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMn-9lbwl0w
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!
I think someone also made this for MacBooks: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
Newer MacBooks have IMUs as well for the movement dots feature (used to help with screen sickness in vehicles)
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.
Awesome. This reminds me of the fun apps we had when the MacBook and iPhone got released.
It finally feels premium. This is really funny
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 :)
Very cool. Could make it be higher pitch & louder when closed faster :)
It reminds me of how, back in school, we used to replace the sound that played when Windows shut down with fart sounds.
The Whoopie Laptop
Are you running MacOS on your Framework?
It looks like Fedora. Did you visit the wrong link?
Yep, it's Fedora on KDE
Sure did.. I was looking at the link in the body of the post, not the title link. /smh