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
Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door launched on August 2, 2026 with 96 votes, #415 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
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 movement to audio output, allowing users to add rusty hinge sounds to their laptop interactions. The tool is designed for Framework 12 users on Linux who want to add a humorous audio element to their device.
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From the sources
make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too) - ArcaEge/creakwork12
turn your framework 12 into a creaky wooden door, basically this (that was also the inspiration too) but ported to a fw12. it may or may not work on other laptops too, I haven't tested it. the filtering is optimised for framework 12's hinge stiffness. there is an executable in the releases tab. download it, do the usual chmod +x and run. enjoy. note: this was built on fedora, so your mileage may vary on other distros - there might be dynamic linking issues. or git clone and do cargo run . you'll have to install libiio-devel and alsa-lib-devel first though if you do that (or libasound2-dev and libalsa-dev onfrom github.com
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