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sam henri gold

why do I support right to repair? simple: i want to upload my own MIDI files to my washing machine to play when it finishes a cycle without voiding my warranty

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sam henri gold

for the record, it would be the intro to Gimme Gimme Gimme.

D. Griffin Jones

@samhenrigold gimme gimme gimme
a load full of laundry
won’t somebody help me
wash the dirt all away

Hunter Gough 🍦🌹

@dgriffinjones @samhenrigold

or, hear me out:

🎢 With your lights, and your darks, and your wools, and your knits,
and your deli- and your deli- and your delicates!
What's in your basket? In your baaaasket,
LAUNDRY! LAUNDRY! LAUNDRY, EEE, EEE, EEE!

Hunter Gough 🍦🌹

@dgriffinjones @samhenrigold @Lunatic_Moth (this is a great tune to sing while trying to get cranberry stains out)

Eloy

@samhenrigold

Won't somebody help me fold the clothes away? Gimme, gimme, gimme a peg after midnight

Heliograph

@samhenrigold hahaha I'd upload the entire suite of Deep Space Nine midis πŸ˜† :ablobwobble: awesome idea tho!!

Kannie

@samhenrigold
Buy those knock off chinese stuff, who needs the a garentee

Dan Lyke

@samhenrigold a few entries down I discovered the announcement that there's been a new version of the Wilhelm Scream digitized from original sources....

mastodon.online/@stevenrosenth

Fish Id Wardrobe

@samhenrigold I too have a Samsung, and that would totally work!!

Michael Gurski

@samhenrigold what? Not Axel F from Beverly Hills Cop? Or that riff from Sweet Child of Mine?

Π“Ρ€ΠΈΠ³ΠΎΡ€ΠΈΠΉ Клюшников

after reading this I'm trying to imagine a thread on xda-developers with a custom firmware for a washing machine

sam henri gold

@grishka I found a reddit post and one of the comments had the phrase β€œbricked my dryer” which was more than enough indication that i was in way over my head

otheorange_tag

@samhenrigold straight up follow, not even lookin! πŸ€“πŸ€“πŸ‘

Peter Barnes

@samhenrigold I’m now having this dystopian vision where the home automation detects the front door opening, and a massed chorus of fridge, toaster, coffee-maker, washing machine, dryer, toothbrush and microwave oven burst into the opening movement of Beethoven’s 5th.

Alexander The 1st

@samhenrigold I mean, now that you say that, my thought is to instead modify the MIDI playback so that each stage of the washing machine cycle plays a different MIDI during it, so that progress is audible (Using, for example, different looped sections of, say, this [ youtu.be/P3MBQciFeHo ]).

`Da Elf

@samhenrigold Ohhhhhh, if I cloud flash new sounds on to the washer, the would would be a much better place.

Colin Alworth

@samhenrigold @thomasfuchs I didn’t know I needed this until this very moment.

Dawn TΓ₯ke πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

@samhenrigold
I'd like to replace the lame-ass, damn near inaudible speaker with something I can hear. Also, maybe an awooga horn when it's done.

Cysio :verified_gay:​

@Tourma @samhenrigold (un)fortunately mine is IoT so it sends me a smartphone notification and my watch vibrates on my wrist then

Dawn TΓ₯ke πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

@me @samhenrigold
Same. But the person who does most the laundry has only a Kindle Fire, which doesn't have the app on it. So I get the notifications even though I'm Nat even at home.

Cysio :verified_gay:​

@DelilahTech @Tourma @samhenrigold but then you don't have the value added features we're talking about

Full Metal Archaeopteryx

@me @Tourma @samhenrigold sorry, all I can see is the ability to allow bad people to compromise my home network.

Cysio :verified_gay:​

@DelilahTech @Tourma @samhenrigold yeah I should probably make a "home automation" subnet at this point

Killer Space Squid

@samhenrigold Great idea! I want my washing machine to be like a jukebox.

Likely Jan Lukas

@samhenrigold @colinpeters

The tune mine plays sounds suspiciously like a numbers station transmission.

I'd be genuinely afraid to open any part of it other than the door or the lint filter. πŸ˜³πŸ˜±πŸ˜‚

Momo

@samhenrigold
Until now I didn't know that I need a drum machine, a 303 and a fm synth in my washing machine, but now I know... 🀯
@foone

Kee Hinckley

@samhenrigold @foone Could you go a step further and adjust the agitate cycle to have a matching rhythm?

Goth'n'Bass

@samhenrigold YES!
That machine's tune is just so *jaunty*!

I'd rather it play Popcorn. All of the versions, one after the other.

kianryan β˜‘οΈπŸ™πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@samhenrigold ... I now want washing machine MIDI played through 80s/90s MIDI devices. I want a MT-32 washing machine.

Sarah, The Website Therapist

@samhenrigold @sabik I’d settle for the washing machine sound going off once it released the door, rather than a few minutes before anything can be done.

Waterluvian

@samhenrigold Sorry but you need to download the Samsung Samsings Companion Appβ„’ where you can purchase Tide Tunesβ„’ and upload them to your dishwasher (Subscription required).

JT the Artful :autism:

@samhenrigold hearing the BeeGees "Staying Alive" after every laundry cycle indicates to me it has been a successful laundry session. ☺️

Den of Earth

@samhenrigold Bonus points if you can wire the bass line to the motor control.

mirabilos

@samhenrigold or disable the beeping altogether because it only annoys those who are out in the garden anyway, the rest of the house cannot hear the beeping from the basement

Lothus Marque

@samhenrigold You may have mentioned it somewhere else and I just missed it, but what model is this that has the capability? Because I love this idea in general...

Simon Zerafa :donor: :verified:

@samhenrigold

"Don't you forget about me" by Simple Minds would be a suitable track to play πŸ˜‰

Colin Watson

@samhenrigold I think I'd go for literally anything other than the Trout Quintet with a random six-note jingle stuck on the end

Condorito

@samhenrigold One day I shall have a car that upon startup informs me:

"REACTOR ONLINE
SENSORS ONLINE
WEAPONS ONLINE
ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL"

37564

@samhenrigold that would be cool and awesome and great i dont think anything will ever top the little jingle samsung washers have

SiljeLB

@samhenrigold
Omg, this is the best idea ever! 🀯🀩

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