This year, I built a toy for my grandkids for Christmas, using a rotary dial salvaged from a Goodwill find. It has two 7-seg LEDs and a switch to select up or down counting or dialled digit display.

A rotary dial phone as a kitchen timer is a nice beginner project – you just need an Arduino and a dual relay… The only issue I had was that the ringing was rather quiet, as I did not step up ...

Makers and ordering your enthusiasts looking for a new project to keep them busy may be interested in this new Arduino rotary phone hack ... When I dial 2 or 3, it calls one of my sons, and so ...

Nobody has ever wished that Twitter’s 140-character limit were even stricter, but then, nobody before had ever tried Tweeting from an old-school rotary-dial phone. Enter Tweephone, a phone that ...

Rotobooth is a photo booth controlled by an embedded rotary telephone, and there are two ways to use it. You can dial ‘0’ to take a photo, which is automatically uploaded to Flickr.

Arduino Uno + potentiometer + OLED == virtual circular dial. Call it synchronicity, or manually setting a 16-bit number in an Arduino, or how to turn an OLED into a rotary dial... What am I talking ...

The Rotary Un-Smartphone went up for pre-order in January, 2021 with an estimated ship date of spring of that year, but due to the global supply chain shortage, it has yet to actually begin shipping.

As convenient as modern cellphones are, there's a certain charm to spinning an old-fashioned rotary dial to make a call -- and now, there's a cellphone that caters to that nostalgia. Brookhaven ...

The Arduino records input from the dial, reformats it to an IP address and retrieves the HTML data. This is then parsed, and the data sent to a speech synthesiser.

Call it synchronicity, or manually setting a 16-bit number in an Arduino, or how to turn an OLED into a rotary dial... What am I talking about? Well, I was just compiling the blogs pages for the next ...