wonderful! Thanks for sharing. I thought about doing this to track the sounds moving around in my stomach... it is interesting how well the mic on your smartphone works at picking up stomach sounds
"The system worked as intended. It gave me the position of the beep to within about 40cm, then I dug through that specific pile of boxes and found an ancient carbon monoxide detector that desperately wanted its batteries replaced."
Woah this is cool. Another interesting simonw project based around sound through browsers. Lots of simple real world problems that can be tackled with this.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ai1gIWacf0I
It costs ~$1,000 so you'd probably rent it if you're only going to use it once, but it's a neat gadget.
1) Move half the boxes to another room.
2) Listen for a beep and determine which room the beep comes from.
3) Take the boxes in that room and split it in half again.
4) Repeat until one box is left.
Alternatively, no.
"The system worked as intended. It gave me the position of the beep to within about 40cm, then I dug through that specific pile of boxes and found an ancient carbon monoxide detector that desperately wanted its batteries replaced."
Maybe I should have asked Claude to help triangulate it for me.