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I rebuilt an old bakelite phone into a jukebox for SID tunes. Here's a video about it!

Posted Sunday 4-Jul-2021 21:31

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Anonymous
Mon 5-Jul-2021 14:12
Fantastic user interface :D

/P
lollipopman
Jesse W Hathaway
Wed 7-Jul-2021 20:26
Really awesome! Thanks so much for the wonderful video and the great reuse of some old tech for a fun new purpose!
Anonymous
Fri 9-Jul-2021 08:56
Hi

Lets say I would like to reproduce this without modifying my phone. Would it be possible to make an external box with the extra two buttons to implement the same functionality?

/P
b_jonas
Wed 14-Jul-2021 22:47
The rotary dial has the digit 0 on the shortest travel path, the fastest digit to dial, faster than even the digit 1. On a real telephone, 0 is on the other end of the dial, the one that's slowest to dial, beyond the digit 9. This ruins part of the illusion of an old telephone for me.
ralph
Ralph Corderoy
Thu 15-Jul-2021 12:26

b_jonas wrote:

The rotary dial has the digit 0 on the shortest travel path, the fastest digit to dial, faster than even the digit 1. On a real telephone, 0 is on the other end of the dial, the one that's slowest to dial, beyond the digit 9.

This varied by country. Anti-clockwise, variations included 1234567890, 0123456789, and even 9876543210.
ralph
Ralph Corderoy
Thu 15-Jul-2021 12:29
Hi Linus, I don't think the microphone is being used? Speech recognition sounds a bit boring. One could whistle commands down it as a nod to phreaking. Or how about whistling a melody to select a matching chiptune. :-)

I thought the video could have described the Pi's connections to the phone a bit more.
Anonymous
Sat 17-Jul-2021 14:31
Just found this. Amazing Linus! Have you seen Jens Christian Huss' sidfactory II? - check it out!
Anonymous
Sun 25-Jul-2021 14:17
The best thing since sliced bread! Next version should use SAM speech :)
pik33
Thu 9-Sep-2021 20:10
Hi

Lets say I would like to reproduce this without modifying my phone. Would it be possible to make an external box with the extra two buttons to implement the same functionality?

/P

Of course it is possible, but you have to add a circuit to simulate a telephone line with its signals and voltages.
pik33
Thu 9-Sep-2021 20:16

ralph wrote:

Hi Linus, I don't think the microphone is being used? Speech recognition sounds a bit boring. One could whistle commands down it as a nod to phreaking. Or how about whistling a melody to select a matching chiptune. :-)

I thought the video could have described the Pi's connections to the phone a bit more.

A Raspberry Pi doesn't have any ADC to connect the microphone. You have to add an ADC... or use a Parallax Propeller 2 microcontroller instead: it has (a lot of... =64) excellent DACs and good ADCs and there are SID and 6502 emulators for it.