somebody over at spark fun decided that those 1980s zach morris cell phones just weren’t retro-cool enough. keith swett sent us the link to this hack which involves retrofitting an old 1950s at&t rotary phone with modern day tri-band cell hardware.
make sure to turn it off when you are in the theatre.
Or just make ring with a remote, this would
be a blast at the bar ;-)
Posted at 11:13 am on Jan 21st, 2005 by dan
I love this, and I’m really tempted to do something similar, but I think this project isn’t really complete without a mechanical typewriter hacked to type text messages.
Posted at 12:32 pm on Jan 21st, 2005 by cafn8
Great hack. Just one thing, though. Believe or not, the black rotary desk set of this style wasn’t used in the fifties, as you say; this style was most common in the sixties, and maybe even the seventies.
Posted at 2:03 pm on Jan 21st, 2005 by Doug Thacker
does anyone know how to make a cellphone attachment like this, but only using the the piece you hold to talk and hear out of
Posted at 2:03 pm on Jan 21st, 2005 by xitanul
does anyone know how to make a cellphone attachment like this, but only using the the piece you hold to talk and hear out of
Posted at 2:03 pm on Jan 21st, 2005 by xitanul
sure.. it’s not too hard to take apart a cell phon e headset and wire it up to an old desktop phone handset.
Posted at 5:34 pm on Jan 21st, 2005 by Joe
After quite a bit of searching, and finding out Alex and Yoshi were both fired from techtv (Wasn’t Alex the one who screwed up the exif preview where she was naked ~_^ ) I found the Yoshi mod I was looking for. Yoshi takes a blue tooth hands free attachment and mods it into the handle of an old school 20th century phone. with little change you can do the same to any wired handsfree attachment.
heres the symlink: http://www.g4techtv.com/screensavers/features/47966/Yoshis_Mod_Tips_Project_OldSchool_Bluetooth.html
Posted at 5:47 pm on Jan 21st, 2005 by cde
I grew up in the 50s and I remember our family having a phone just like this. (The “princess” phones came out in the 60s.)
This would be a very useful hack for me because I can never find my cellphone. Plus it would bring back fond memories. Maybe my son will make one for me. :)
Posted at 1:41 am on Jan 22nd, 2005 by jason's mom
It would be sooooo cool in a fisher price chatter phone !!!
http://www.stevenstoymaster.co.uk/mainImages/3FO0248.jpg
Posted at 11:19 am on Jan 22nd, 2005 by Richard Ake
LOL ! or even a shoe cell phone
http://www.phonelosers.org/cwp/cwp_donadams.jpg
Posted at 11:11 pm on Jan 22nd, 2005 by dan
holy crap!!! i call the shoe phone!!!
but what if you step in doo?
Posted at 8:11 pm on Jan 30th, 2005 by Ryan
Very cool! I built a touchtone phone interface for a cell phone (purpose was to test a Palm Pilot modem interface). Used a hybrid design taken off the web. I simply ran it into the hands-free jack. It worked, and even dialed, but had to get the phone on the air first.
Posted at 8:41 pm on Apr 9th, 2005 by Steven-x
:O the best hack i have ever seen…
Posted at 11:44 am on Apr 29th, 2005 by Barnizagaitas
that is the coolest! I wanted to combine my rotary with a polariod camera, but your hack is just as sweet!
Posted at 7:37 pm on Jun 21st, 2005 by Pip
This was a very cool hack.
I saw this new toy on thinkgeek, and it’s along the same lines as this hack. It’s a much easier hack…but I think you guys can do it.
Here is the picture.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7830/
Posted at 12:17 am on Jul 15th, 2005 by josh
I need to block a cell of a girl i hate. She has Samsung. I need eg. sms bombers, specials code. anything that i could send her and block her cell or most prefarably her Sim card!!!!
please help me
mckowalczyk@wp.pl
Posted at 5:20 pm on Dec 11th, 2005 by Michal
This is a very cool hack.
I collect old pulse dial phones from the 20’s and 30’s and this device could easily be modified to convert pulse dial to tone dial when the phone networks no longer allow pulse dialling.
It’ll take some work to modify but it could work.
Thanks.
Posted at 11:24 am on Jan 14th, 2006 by HEllahulla
can anyone email me the vodafone unlock code hacks for sendo sv663?
Posted at 8:54 am on Jan 30th, 2006 by inno
can anyone help me..my name is scott nichols i have a ideal for cell phone,but i need someone who can help me make is dream happen….i know nothing about cell phones but have a vision on something new….i’m in new jersey so someone please help me
scott
Posted at 6:47 pm on May 9th, 2006 by scott nichols
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Eeeps! I finally tracked down a cellphone suitable for the project but now the URL returns a 404! Where did the instructions go?
Posted at 3:42 pm on Mar 25th, 2008 by Percy Fox
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I love hacks like this
Posted at 4:45 am on Jan 21st, 2005 by barbobot