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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. osigurdson ◴[28 Apr 23 06:09 UTC] No.35738022[source]▶
I built an ice cream pail drum machine interface as a kid using cheap piezoelectric speakers (in reverse to generate a signal). This was amplified and brought into a micro-controller to generate a MIDI signal for the drum machine. It actually worked pretty well.