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Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

Details

External ID
49148048
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Aug. 2, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
96
Upvotes percentile
0.9247311827956989
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Description

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

Enrichment

Theme
custom keyboards and input controllers
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
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Audience
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AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
audio effect to make framework laptop sound creaky
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Reading sensor data from Linux's Industrial I/O (/sys/bus/iio) subsystem and triggering audio playback based on hinge angle is a straightforward shell or Python script.

Discussion

19 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: LidAngleSensor (MacBooks), MacBook ambient light sensor approach, ThinkPad accelerometer hacks

Concerns raised: Sound is 2.9s recording rather than fully synthesized, Filtering optimized only for Framework 12's hinge stiffness

Feature requests: Pitch and volume should vary with hinge speed/position, Higher pitch and louder when closed faster, Synthesized sound instead of recording for more realism

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 25 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #4 of 26 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 213 days after the earliest competitor.

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