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

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Post by arcaege » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

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

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
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Post by 1bpp » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

It finally feels premium. This is really funny

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Post by faeyanpiraat » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

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

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Post by embedding-shape » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC

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

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Post by DonHopkins » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC

The Whoopie Laptop

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Post by eikenberry » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 1:20 AM UTC

Are you running MacOS on your Framework?

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Post by jedbrooke » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 2:20 AM UTC

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 :)

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

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Post by fwipsy » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 2:28 AM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #4

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.

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Post by bitwize » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:03 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by cadamsdotcom » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 5:13 AM UTC

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