The invention of the transistor ushered in a lot of technologies that we now take for granted, and one of the less-thought-about areas that it improved living conditions worldwide was by making the ...

A lot of phrases surrounding phones don’t make sense anymore. With a modern cellphone, you don’t really “hang up” and there’s certainly no “dial” to be had. However, with [jakeofalltrades’] project, ...

Makers and ordering your enthusiasts looking for a new project to keep them busy may be interested in this new Arduino rotary phone hack which uses an Arduino Pro Mini and a SIM900 GSM shield. Created ...

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 will ...

This one caught my eye on twitter – a Redditor has converted a 1961 Western Electric Model 500 old-style telephone into a rotary cell phone using Arduino. It’s an impressive project that not only uses ...