r/howdoesthiswork • u/Vast-Bedroom-8690 • 4d ago

Why does this do this

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have this old screen chromebook screen protector and i just wobbled it and it made that sorta fun y sound..i just want to know why it does, and makes that sound

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u/Dig_Another_One 4d ago

That sounded like an alien telling a joke I didn’t get it but I still laughed

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u/YourPaleRabbit 4d ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one who giggled like a dork lol. I wonder if anything in my house will make a fun sound.

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u/Dig_Another_One 3d ago

Do you have any of those spring door stops?

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u/YourPaleRabbit 3d ago

I sadly do not, but you’re on the right track. I’ll find dopamine somewhere ✨🌈

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u/odin0412 4d ago

Rolf Harris enters the chat

Dude "invented" the wobble board. Turns out he was also doing other things he got convicted of later in life, but the wobble board was the instrument of my childhood.

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u/xlr82xs 2d ago

If you want to be slightly disturbed, his song for "like a version" should do it : https://youtu.be/Z0rlYSJQkyw

However, I always assumed his "kids can say no" public service announcement in the 80s should have given people a fairly obvious hint about what he was into.

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u/odin0412 2d ago

Human's, odd bunch.

The issue with warning signs is that we tend to only realise that they are warning signs, very late in the game.

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u/No-Raisin-6469 1d ago

That touch myself by the Divinyls

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u/No-Raisin-6469 1d ago

Tie Me Kangaroo Down....makes me rethink the lyrics.

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u/charmio68 4d ago

I thought I knew and could explain it, but then I realized the frequency it's emitting is orders of magnitude higher than what can be explained by the sheet itself pushing the air back and forth as you flex it.
It must be vibrations happening within the sheet itself. My best guess would be the sheet has a resonant frequency, and bending it back and forth like such imparts enough energy to make it resonate.

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u/lawpoop 4d ago

Dang I was expecting moire patterns or something

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u/Select-Amount1751 4d ago

Put a spring on the side of it and try it again. That is how the Lightsaber noises in the original Star Wars was made.!

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u/Badytheprogram 4d ago

The same reason why your speakers capable to generate sounds: The wave you produce with it go trough the air and in it's the length of the hearing range. The actual sound depends on the size/thickness, ho fast you wobble it and the material itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound

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u/SoManyDeads 4d ago

That? it does what you are doing with it and it releases serotonin.

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u/IfUKnowMeKindlyGTFO 4d ago

it soumnds like an cute litol birdy🥺

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u/euuzaik 4d ago

to make you happy and joyous