A bored design engineer turned his MacBook screen hinge into a theremin.
Apparently there’s a sensor inside MacBooks that can tell the exact angle of the screen. Sam Henri Gold, a NYC-based design engineer, decided to use that revelation to make his laptop play the sound of a creaking door as it closed, and to control the pitch of a theremin.
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