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A project log for DIAVOX Cellphone

Turning an old diavox phone into a cellphone. No smart stuff, just a telephone. Pick up the handset and dial just like the old days.

anders-helgessonAnders Helgesson 02/03/2025 at 20:190 Comments

This is what the waveform looks like from the DAC with 3.3 volts this time.

Looks good

This is what it looks like after the LPF(Low pass filter).

The waveform is cleaned up but it also drops in voltage, it's because of the voltage divider at the op-amp input.


This is what it looks like after the pre-amp stage.

It's still being clipped...
This is what it looks like after the buffer.

Same, this is to be expected
This is what the output looks like after the amplifer.

Okay..., the amplifer is powered from USB so that's probably where the noise comes from. I'll pretend I didn't see that and move on.

Okay, I'll remove the lowpass filter for now and the voltage divider at the pre-amp input. Now it looks like this.

Most of the time I don't know what I'm doing it seems that I'm trying to amplify a signal that doesn't need to be amplified... Stupid me... The DAC is already outputting at 3.3 volt. I do not need to amplify the signal further I could just use the buffer directly instead. 

I removed the Pre-amp and put the filter back instead so now it's like this DAC -> LPF -> Buffer -> Amplifier -> Speaker.

The signal after the Buffer now looks like this.

It sounds much much better. According to the oscilloscope I'm getting a 392.2Hz signal instead of the 400Hz I want. I need a better timer to handle the 8kHz playback.

Here is some pictures what the breadboard setup looks like.

Today I took a different approach to writing the log, instead of writing a log entry at the end of the session, I updated the log entry as I went on. This seems to be better and also gives a bit of reflection what I'm doing. I'll probably continue doing this.

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