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

1901 points l2silver | 2 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | 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. squeaky-clean ◴[28 Apr 23 18:00 UTC] No.35744841[source]▶
I've built a few audio effects that only I've used. The only one that really stuck around is a guitar pedal delay effect with pitch shifting where the pitch shifting only happens on the first repeat, it doesn't accumulate as the sound repeats. It also has an envelope follower so notes can repeat infinitely when there's no playing, and once you start strumming/picking again the feedback of the repeats drops to zero until you stop playing and it goes back to the knob setting (Which can go from 0-150% feedback). Unfortunately I've got no good sound demos except some Facebook videos I'm not willing to share ;p
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2. noizejoy ◴[28 Apr 23 18:10 UTC] No.35745004[source]▶
Very cool! Is that hardware or vst plugin?