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by jtwaleson 389 days ago
Shameless plug for those who like rotary phones: I converted mine into a fully functional bluetooth headset, including dialing phone numbers with the rotary dial. The HN post didn't do well but it got featured on hackaday.

https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/bakelite-to-the-future-a-195...

https://blog.waleson.com/2024/10/bakelite-to-future-1950s-ro...

Creating an alt mode for a bluetooth rotary numpad shouldn't be difficult ;) Now if I could only find some time.
1 comments
sephalon 389 days ago
Nice one! Using an ESP32 is a much more economical choice these days, but well, I really wanted to write a Linux kernel driver ;-)
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jtwaleson 389 days ago
Understandable ;) In any case,the hardware is a fraction of the costs if you count the hours...

Would be interested to see a bit of your hardware setup!

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