I believe this was originally explored by Sam Henri Gold, at least that's the first time I saw it a while ago :)

Links: https://samhenri.gold/labs/20250906-lid-angle-sensor/ https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Reminds me of Sam Henri Gold's project: https://www.theverge.com/news/773472/a-bored-design-engineer...

He's also the person who originally came up with the creaking door: https://bsky.app/profile/samhenri.gold/post/3ly7252lx422d

repo link (featuring tls!): https://github.com/ronreiter/crack

Like so many things... fun, but been done.

THIS is whimsy.

No TLS?

You need https.