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Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
This reveals that Framework 12 laptops expose precise hinge angle data through Linux IIO interfaces, a hardware sensor detail not widely known. The same sensor access pattern could support more practical applications like context-aware power management or input modes that shift based on lid position.
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Framework 12 laptops expose a hinge angle sensor through Linux IIO devices that can be read programmatically.
The application maps sensor position to audio pitch and movement speed to volume, requiring real-time sensor polling and sound synthesis.
Built in Rust with dependencies on libiio-devel and alsa-lib-devel, tested on Fedora with potential dynamic linking issues on other distros.
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