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A project log for Vintagephone - old rotary phone retrofitting

An open project to bring new functionalities to vintage phones with the nice old rotary, keeping their fascinating vintage style alive.

giulio-ponsGiulio Pons 01/11/2025 at 14:500 Comments

Hi,

I've made 4 of these vintagephones!

I use to give them as present to people I love! I've also made a funny instruction sheet:


Software changes:

I've added a new function number, now by dialing #26 the Vintagephone will randomly tell you the name of one of your family members.

To activate this function you have also to make a folder "04" on the micro-sd card and place there the mp3 files with the names.

Since I've not found a way to count the mp3 files in a folder (is it possible!?!) you have also to update the number of files in the line 1535 of the vintagephone.ino software. I should really fix this tedious bug.

I've updated the source file in the Github repository.

https://github.com/giuliopons/vintagephone

I've also updated the code to allow the usage of the hanging-up switch in reverse (some phones have the switch reversed).

I've fixed a bug that sometimes lets you hear sounds even when you hang up the receiver.

Bye!

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