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Very nice. Our home has a rotary phone in most of the rooms (they're cheap on ebay and easy to repair if they're not working). Each one is plugged into a Grandstream HT802, which gets it onto our home network. A raspberry pi runs FusionPBX, which gives each phone a number, and lets them all dial each other. The kids love it!
Am I the only one that is bothered that the finger stop (or whatever it is called) moves?
I’ll die on a hill for ex-spearmint though. That’s ok. She can’t be right about everything.
Not a constructive comment... but this project made me smile during the whole video. This is awesome! Great hacker in my book.
> Rotary Cell Phone (Description and Build) (youtube 52 mins)
> Mar 5, 2020 My open source rotary cell phone went viral (surprisingly, to me and my husband), and people seem to be interested in it. The original description with links to notes and design files is here: [2] and a starter kit is now available here: [3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0euCWf0FpOA
Am I the only one that is bothered that the finger stop (or whatever it is called) moves?
Hopefully then it does have a real physical stop---otherwise it'd be quite hard to dial correctly!
Am I the only one that is bothered that the finger stop (or whatever it is called) moves?
Yeah that surprised me too. Is it there so that when the finger stop moves, it registers the number? I've only had a few rotary phones in my life, but I've never seen one where that doohickey (which I believe is the technical term) moves.
The moving finger stop also appeared in 1960s versions of the Lineman's Test Set (the "butt set", usually hung from a tool belt), where the dial was on the back of the earpiece.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimline_telephone
[2] https://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/images/dl/misc/schmoo.jpg
[3] https://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/telephones-trimline-artic...
I love it when people say "Oh, I'm not a programmer" and then continue showing the stuff they've built (and fully programmed) that is a way beyond in complexity than what most of us professional programmers get to work on, like ever... :)
When you interrogate, they'd say almost sheepishly 'oh I'm no programmer I just threw this together.' I don't think they realize 98% of programmers are just throwing things together and acting like a God when it actually works...
