Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude
The author built a software system called Beep Locator using Claude Code to find a mysterious, intermittently beeping carbon monoxide detector in an unpacked room. The system runs a Python web server and coordinates multiple devices acting as listeners to triangulate the source of the sound based on acoustic ranging and user inputs. This project demonstrated that coding agents can be effectively equipped with audio capabilities by combining web APIs, WebSockets, and real-time code injection. Open article →
Notable comments
Readers focused on the project’s practical, maker-friendly use of web-audio/LLM agents for real-world acoustic localization, and compared it to other audio-on-the-web demos and humorous “triangulation” alternatives.