A personal assistant built into a classic telephone #Telephony @HackSpaceMag
Ashley Whittaker writes in the latest issue of HackSpace Magazine about Rob Miles turning an old rotary phone into a robotic personal assistant.
Rotary dial phones are fashionable again. You can even buy brand new ‘old’ ones based on the original design. These have dials, but not the weight or the authentic bell sound. The author was completely unaware of this trend when he picked up his red phone.The idea was to retain the external appearance and behaviours but bring the device up to date with all-new internals and some fun behaviours.
He wanted to create a web-controlled device that could be used to receive messages and alerts. The telephone that was built contains a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W running JavaScript code inside the node environment, using Express to host a telephone website.
All the code, 3D files for the mounting plate, and a setup sequence for a Raspberry Pi can be found in the GitHub repository for the project.
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