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By mapping each 5-minute temperature reading to a single 16-bit audio sample and playing the resulting waveform at 8,000 Hz, the dataset was time-compressed by a factor of 2.4 million.\n\nSurprisingly, the resulting audio sometimes exhibits **speech-like formants and syllabic rhythms** particularly during periods of known **geomagnetic activity**.\n\n---\n\n## Why It’s Weird\n\nWhile it started as a quirky sonification experiment, cross-referencing the audio with NOAA space weather logs revealed a persistent correlation between **structured audio artifacts** and **solar/geomagnetic storm windows**.\n\nEven after ruling out software artifacts via independent Python and PHP implementations, the effect remained. This suggests that the USB thermometer might be acting (unintentionally) as a crude EMF sensor due to poor shielding or internal analog quirks.\n\n---\n\n## What’s Inside\n\n- `paper/` – Full write-up in ODT and PDF formats (with figures and event alignment)\n- `code/` – Sonification scripts in both PHP and Python\n- `audio_samples/` – WAV files of real and simulated data\n- `figures/` – Spectrograms and waveform plots of key audio segments\n- `data.zip` – Temperature log data\n- `README.md` – This file\n\n---\n\n## Simulated Control Experiments\n\nSeveral synthetic datasets were generated to test whether **pareidolia alone** could explain the perception of speech-like structure. These included:\n\n- Simulated thermal cycles with realistic modulation\n- Formant-band noise shaping\n- Chaotic amplitude envelopes\n- Transient consonant-like bursts\n- Phrase pacing and pitch glides\n\nDespite best efforts, none of the synthetic signals reproduced the same kind of **uncanny speech illusion** found in the real dataset, suggesting the phenomenon may involve real-world nonlinearities or subtle environmental-electronic interactions.\n\nSee Section 6 of the write-up for detailed results.\n\n---\n\n## Reproduction Instructions\n\nAll code runs with standard PHP 7+ or Python 3.8+ with `numpy`, `scipy`, and `matplotlib`.\n\n1. Clone the repo.\n2. Unzip and place your `.dat` log files in `data/` (format: `\u003ctimestamp\u003e \u003ctemp\u003e \u003cdate\u003e \u003ctime\u003e`).\n3. Run the appropriate script in `code/` to generate a `.wav` file.\n4. Analyze audio in Audacity or spectrogram tools like SoX or matplotlib.\n\n---\n\n## Reflections\n\nThis work walks a fine line between traditional signal analysis and what could be described as *accidental instrumentation*. Whether these structures are artifacts, interference, or something more exotic, they appear real, repeatable, and worthy of further exploration.\n\nQuestions? Feedback? Want to fork this into a haunted USB ghost detector? Go for it.\n\n---\n\n## License\n\n- Code: MIT License\n- Write-up: [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fnitrocosmstudios%2Ftemperature-sonification","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fnitrocosmstudios%2Ftemperature-sonification","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fnitrocosmstudios%2Ftemperature-sonification/lists"}