how about a phone where you just have a clicker to put in the number in binary?
Rotary Cellphone
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Re: Rotary Cellphone
#22Brilliant!
And this is a gem if there ever was one: “The point isn't to use the rotary dial every single time I want to make a call, which would get tiresome for daily use.“
Re: Rotary Cellphone
#23For those interested, here's a Sparkfun project from 2005 on converting an actual rotary phone into a portable cellular phone:
https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/51
You used to be able to buy them too: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/286
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#24I use an unmodified rotary phone as my main landline phone. In the UK it would seem that our exchanges still support pulse dialling. The only drawback are menu systems that expect to hear tones, but I get around this with a small app on my mobile phone that just plays DTMF tones. If i want to, i can pick up the receiver and play tones down it to dial a number rather than using the... dial.
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#25I use an unmodified rotary phone as my main landline phone. In the UK it would seem that our exchanges still support pulse dialling. The only drawback are menu systems that expect to hear tones, but I get around this with a small app on my mobile phone that just plays DTMF tones. If i want to, i can pick up the receiver and play tones down it to dial a number rather than using the... dial.
Why do you stick with the rotary phone?
Also, isn't it easier to have a second landline phone attached vs having to play DTMF tones from a phone app?
Re: Rotary Cellphone
#26how about a phone where you just have a clicker to put in the number in binary?
or unary :D
The firebrigade and police not even a thousand clicks away.
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#27Calling this open source is a bit of a stretch. At the heart of this phone there is a huge proprietary dependency (the Adafruit FONA module).
It's hard to get any open source software finished, what with all the goat farming.
(https://pics.me.me/i-thought-using-loops-was-cheating-so-pro...)
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#28This is great, I especially love the form factor. I did the same a few years ago but kept the original enclosure:
https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/
It was a very fun project and I learned a lot about electronics doing it!
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#29I use an unmodified rotary phone as my main landline phone. In the UK it would seem that our exchanges still support pulse dialling. The only drawback are menu systems that expect to hear tones, but I get around this with a small app on my mobile phone that just plays DTMF tones. If i want to, i can pick up the receiver and play tones down it to dial a number rather than using the... dial.
Why do you stick with the rotary phone? Also, isn't it easier to have a second landline phone attached vs having to play DTMF tones from a phone app?
It's just a bit of fun. It's more ornamental than anything. It's just nice that it also works as a phone although I rarely ever actually use the landline.
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#30in order to one up this very cool project one would have to:
- create a cellphone in a Telephone magneto style from before there were rotaries
- train a machine learning algorythm to emulate the behavior of a Switchboard operator so you can have the truely "authentic" old school behavior