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Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

#21
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool project but did you really need to use an LLM for this comment?

comment history suggests English is not his first language, this is probably translated

Translation does not typically produce Claude-style sentence structure and phraseology, unless the translator is also Claude.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

#22
post #9

I’m going to get pwned one of these days, considering my threshold for giving a random website access to my webcam is apparently mild curiosity and entertainment for 30s.

"An overdriven webcam sensor reconfigures its pixels into an AI-steered optical phased array, discharging the laptop's total electrical power as a lethal, coherent laser pulse the instant your hand moves."

Then it rendered the page load with '"You have been theremin ated".'

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

#25
post #2

The camera watches your palms. Move them apart and it gets louder. Bring them together and it goes quiet. Raise them both and the note goes up. There is a sound wave strung between your hands, and it slackens as they close. Two palms give you four numbers, and one of them is best left alone. Their mean height is the pitch. The distance between them is the volume. The angle of the line joining them sat unused for mont…

awesome! also do people not like AI comments? when my AI gf chats me up, I sorta like it IYKWIM

U+1F928

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

#26
post #9

I’m going to get pwned one of these days, considering my threshold for giving a random website access to my webcam is apparently mild curiosity and entertainment for 30s.

What would be the attack vector with indirect access to a webcam?

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

#28
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

comment history suggests English is not his first language, this is probably translated

Translation does not typically produce Claude-style sentence structure and phraseology, unless the translator is also Claude.

Right, I'm saying that I think the author asked Claude to translate notes/writing that were composed in a different language.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

#29
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

comment history suggests English is not his first language, this is probably translated

Translation does not typically produce Claude-style sentence structure and phraseology, unless the translator is also Claude.

My bad, I used Claude to create the description. The thing is, I'm really bad at presenting a project properly. But thanks for the criticism, I'll take it into account next time.

Re: Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

#30

Since a physical theremin is played by non-contact gestures and motions, perhaps your creation might be more aptly termed a "Virtual theremin."

Although its still kind of working in roughly the same manner as the original theramin - just using a different frequency of electromagnetic radiation.

Perhaps a "high frequency theramin"?

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