Locating the source of a mysterious beep using Claude

Simon Willison used Claude Code to build Beep Locator, a system that triangulates an intermittent beep in a room full of unpacked boxes using several ordinary devices, and documented the project on his weblog. A Python web server displays the main map while other devices join over a URL to contribute to the sound triangulation.

Simon Willison had an intermittent beep coming from a room full of unpacked boxes, so he had Claude Code build Beep Locator, a system that triangulates a sound using several ordinary devices. He wrote it up on his weblog. A Python web server shows the main map, and other devices join over a URL or …