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I Put My Laptop's Idle NPU to Work with Fan-Aware Soundscapes in Rust

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My Intel Core Ultra 7 laptop has an NPU, but in my everyday work it rarely had anything to do. Leaving it idle felt wasteful, so I started looking for a useful local experiment. That became Fan Composer : a small, open-source Windows app that listens to laptop fan noise and adds a quiet soundscape…

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  1. 2026-10-20 00:46 · DEV Community — AI
    I Put My Laptop's Idle NPU to Work with Fan-Aware Soundscapes in Rust

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