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Re:SensorTap: One command, every sensor your machine has on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:35PM (#49733363)
After seeing people do cool things with sensors, I noticed many don't even know what sensors their laptop might have. So I built this, Sensortap. It's an easy to use CLI tool that uses a collective of APIs to list and find all the sensors that exist on your device.

You can also read sensor output and stream it.

The goal is to make it easier for people to find out about the tiniest, most hidden sensors, like the hinge sensor, and find creative use cases for it, like I did in WinDuo with the webcam, or MacDuo with the hinge sensor. Repo: https://github.com/BaselAshraf81/sensortap

Documentation: https://baselashraf.com/sensortap/docs/

Re:Roadwright: Draw a wheel. See the road it rolls on on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:27AM (#49680019)
Thanks for sharing!
Re:Show HN: The iPhone Duo fold effect on any Windows laptop on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:20AM (#49679995)
Basic phase correlation, works on my bad webcam. No need for fancy hinge angle encoders, all you need is some computer vision.

I open sourced it just like all my other projects.

Let me know what you think!

Oh, I misclicked, my bad.
I thank.
Hi, I was propagating DNS nameservers, sorry for the delay.

Let me know if you still face any issues.

EDIT: The DNSSEC validation error was caused by a cached TTL mismatch during the nameserver migration. I've temporarily disabled DNSSEC while it clears up and am getting it sorted out.

That's one thing, and I would also like to be known in the dev world, with my ideas, what I build, and be famous for something I love doing.

I don't really care as much about the resume but I have to, I just graduated college.

My open source journey is starting and I want my creativity to be heard and seen.

Hope I answered your question :)

Re:eigendrum on Saturday August 15, 2026 @06:59PM (#49315084)
I am sorry for the ads, I disabled it immediately after I have seen your complaints, but I forgot about the consent banner. Hope it didn't affect your experience.
I disabled the ads 1 hours after I seen this but I totally forgot about the consent banner, sorry for that. Hope it didn't affect your experience much.
I think the optimal would always be a circular speaker. But I like the way you think. It's like building a car with triangular glass wheels.
I am sorry about that, I thought I removed the consent banner along with the ads completely this morning, then I came back here and realized Google AdSense still had the consent banner published, I forgot to disable it, it doesn't show up to me as I am not EU I guess. Should be gone now, please let me know if something else still shows up.
It was hosted on github pages before buying a domain, you can directly visit eigendrum.com, sorry for the confusion!
I am sorry about that, I thought I removed the consent banner along with the ads completely this morning, then I came back here and realized Google AdSense still had the consent banner published, I forgot to disable it, it doesn't show up to me as I am not EU I guess. Should be gone now, please let me know if something else still shows up.
I am sorry about that, I thought I removed the consent banner along with the ads completely this morning, then I came back here and realized Google AdSense still had the consent banner published, I forgot to disable it, it doesn't show up to me as I am not EU I guess. Should be gone now, please let me know if something else still shows up.
Re:eigendrum on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:58PM (#49306885)
Re:eigendrum on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:40PM (#49306785)
There's actually a "ring-out" slider and a "mallet" width slider under the drum already.

Ring out controls how fast the higher modes decay (basically stiff vs soft material), The mallet width controls how many modes a strike can even reach, since a real mallet can't drive the high frequency ones very hard.

No labeled presets like "wood" or "metal" though, just raw sliders. Would be a fun addition if someone wants to map a few physically sensible combos to buttons. PRs Welcome!

Re:eigendrum on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:34PM (#49306752)
Thanks for reposting this! I'm the developer (BaselAshraf81) - happy to answer questions or hear suggestions here.

If you find it interesting, a star on the GitHub repo helps a lot.

And don't forget to follow me on github, I build cool stuff!

Re:Eigendrum: Draw a shape and hear its standing-wave modes on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:05PM (#49281035)
Thank you for reposting
Consider using a model like supertonic 3 for tts.

Its light weight and can run on web inference.