Smith first shared his rotary-based exploits on January 3, taking to r/ArduinoProjects to show off how he rigged an old-school telephone to handle numpad inputs with the eponymous microcontroller ...

No, you’re not seeing things. It’s the year 2022 and rotary phones are back. There’s likely a sizeable portion of our audience reading this piece who have only ever seen rotary phones in ...

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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 phone is a hybrid of two technologies: the interface of a rotary phone, with the most basic functionality of the web. [Photo: courtesy Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design] How does it work?

As spotted by Hackaday, Jouke Waleson has had an old Dutch rotary phone called "1950" for 15 years and, over the last few weeks, has turned it into a functioning Bluetooth headset.In their blog ...

To these kids’ credit, they all recognize that what they’re looking at is a phone of some type. They don’t, however, know it’s called a rotary phone. Many of them don’t know how to dial ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — I posted on Facebook recently an image of this old rotary phone I bought online. Then I proceeded to say that I had Googled for a while and figured out how to make that relic ...

After a tsunami killed more than 15,000 people in 2011, Sasaki opened the wind telephone to the public. It has been visited by 30,000 people, sparking a book, two films and hundreds of other wind ...

If you didn’t need a rotary phone, no doubt you’d stumble across someone selling a pallet of them for $20. But since you do need one, $50+ is the best price you’ll find. Every damn time.