Willison uses Claude Code to triangulate a household beep
Original title: Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude
He had Claude Code build Beep Locator, a Python web UI that uses several devices to find an intermittent beep among unpacked boxes.
Simon Willison describes a box room where something started beeping intermittently after a move. Rather than unpack every box, he had Claude Code build Beep Locator, software meant to triangulate the sound with multiple devices in the room. A Python web server shows the main interface, and a QR code or URL lets additional devices connect. The feed excerpt ends before describing results or how the locator works.
Unconfirmed: The excerpt is cut off and does not confirm that the locator found the beep.
- The beeps were spaced far enough apart that listening in the room was frustrating.
- Beep Locator uses a Python web server and a QR code or URL for extra devices.
- The excerpt does not say whether the beep's source was identified.
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From the original article
Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping . The beeps were far enough apart that standing in the room and trying to determine the source of the noise was frustrating, and I really didn't want to dig through every one of those boxes.
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