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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- Keystrike Pro · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- hyper-hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Crack · hn · 2026-03-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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- frame-mic-tuner · github · 2026-09-27 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- boringBar · hn · 2026-04-12 · 520 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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