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24 alternatives to Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door
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
This tool leverages the hinge angle sensor built into Framework 12 laptops to generate creaky door sound effects on Linux as the laptop opens and closes. It reads data from the device's iio sensors and maps hinge… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Haxophone▲526I built this during Covid. When I released it, some of the parts went out of stock or skyrocketed in price, no longer making this an economic DIY project. Now that things are getting back to almost normal, I thought I'd share it here and request feedback. This is a very niche project for people who like the same things I do: saxophones, Rust, mechanical keyboards and the Raspberry Pi.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unclack is the small but mighty Mac utility that mutes your keyboard while you type!
2021 · unclack.app · its alternatives →
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Lifetime supply of sounds for a UX designer
2017 · icons8.com · its alternatives →
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Keytap2 - acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on language n-gram frequencies
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm a longtime web dev, but this is my first macOS app. Feedback is very welcome <3 I built TongueType because every dictation app I tried failed at least one of three things: it sent my audio to someone's cloud, it charged me monthly fee, or it felt clunky or enterprisy. The cloud thing kills it for anything sensitive. The subscription thing is insulting for what amounts to "Whisper + a hotkey." TongueType runs Whisper locally on Apple Silicon via CoreML. It's built to feel like a second keyboard: tap the hotkey, talk, let go, words appear. It sits in the menu bar (no dock icon, no…
May 2026 · tonguetype.app · its alternatives →
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Olaf - Acoustic fingerprinting on the ESP32 and in the Browser
2020 · 0110.be · its alternatives →
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A modern GUI frontend for libinput-gestures
2018 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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shush▲102Room-aware noise. Quieter. Smarter. Better REM sleep.
Apr 2026 · shushapps.com · its alternatives →
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Foyer▲126Build a room of ambient sound that lives in your notch
Jun 2026 · usefoyer.app · its alternatives →
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Screenshot of framework in action
2018 · log.fundamental-code.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · zynaddsubfx.sf.net · its alternatives →
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This is part of my journey on pybind11. I wrote a tiny FM Synthesis library in C++ and a Python wrapper for that using pybind11. There is a command-line piano app in the examples directory if you want to play with it. Here is the link: https://github.com/charstorm/koelsynth/tree/main/examples/si... My next target is to attach this to some kind of physics simulation - like a bunch of balls moving around in a box with some internal walls. When the ball hits certain trigger points, it produces the sound.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SlideSynth▲49— Move touch up and down to change frequency, move touch left and right to change volume. — Tap the logo to loop, tap again to stop looping, tap yet again to cancel the loop. — Tap the waveform icons to change the waveform.
2024 · slidesynth.com · its alternatives →
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Teclo▲79Mechanical keyboard sounds and a keycap pet for your Mac
2d ago · teclo.app · its alternatives →
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I vibe-coded a speech-to-text tool for Wayland that works for me. You trigger it with a keybind, speak into your mic, and it transcribes using OpenAI Whisper or Google STT (local is coming), then either types it directly into your active text field or saves it to the clipboard. It uses PipeWire for audio capture and works signal-driven, so there's no background process running. Just on-demand transcription when you need it. I've tested it on Niri and it should work on Hyprland, though I haven't tested GNOME or KDE yet. This was a one day Rust project and probably has some bugs since I just…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built Contrapunk because I wanted to play guitar and hear counterpoint harmonies generated in real-time. It takes audio from your guitar, MIDI player or your computer keyboard and generates harmony voices that follow counterpoint rules to generate harmonies. You can choose the key you would like to improvise/play in and the voice leading style and which part of the harmony you would like to play as, as well. macOS DMG: https://github.com/contrapunk-audio/contrapunk/releases/tag/... Source:…
Apr 2026 · contrapunk.com · its alternatives →
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WizzyPoke▲88Instant vibration alerts across all browser tabs.
Jan 2026 · wizzypoke.com · its alternatives →
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Dictatofree tier, from $20.82/mo▲93I built a macOS dictation app where everything runs on-device. Transcription, auto-correct, translation. No audio or text leaves your machine. It ships with 4 transcription engines you can swap between: WhisperKit (99 languages), NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B (25 European languages, fastest of the bunch), Qwen3-ASR 0.6B (30 languages), and Apple Speech on macOS 26+. They all run through CoreML/Metal. Whisper is the most versatile, Parakeet wins on raw latency for European languages, Qwen3 does better with CJK. I went with a protocol-based architecture so you pick the engine that fits your…
Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →
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Dictation that runs on your own computer. Press a key, speak, and the text lands in the app you are using. Free and open source, for macOS, Windows, and Linux. - watzon/sayso
10d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Emacs minor mode that intercepts and translates keystrokes to provide a modifier-free non-modal editing experience - susam/devil
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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