Hah, good ol DTMF. I used to get free payphone calls with the coin tones on my ipod.
-Taylor

Posted at 12:07 am on Jan 26th, 2009 by Taylor Alexander

omg! i love it. crummy looking robots made of silly stuff are cuter than puppies! good work man.

Posted at 12:58 am on Jan 26th, 2009 by charlie

wow taylor you must be living in 1980 or somewhere other than the states – haven’t been able to play dtmf tones into a phone for free calls in a long time…I would have guessed the ipod was invented after dtmf tone playback stopped working.

nice hack – cool that jeff’s made such a simple toy with not much more than an arduino, his phone and his plasticware. :P

Posted at 8:34 am on Jan 26th, 2009 by supershwa

Kinda reminds me of the Wimobot, the robots running Windows Mobile.

http://www.wimobot.com

Posted at 11:29 am on Jan 26th, 2009 by Joel Johnson

supershwa: yea, i tried it once– didn’t work. then read up on it and found that the technique had been dead for a long time.

Posted at 5:44 pm on Jan 26th, 2009 by andrew

Now I knew why Matt Cutts adores it. Nice :)

Posted at 9:15 am on Jan 27th, 2009 by gOOg

occasionally in some rural areas you can still find some of the _old_ pay phones in use. they are getting way further and way fewer between though. As the rural telcos update their networks, the old phones will no longer work and will need to be replaced.

Posted at 9:53 am on Jan 27th, 2009 by sly

This guy’s head is a toilet float. His body may or may not be mostly Jenga blocks. Overall, a fun little project.

Posted at 8:24 pm on Jan 31st, 2009 by SashaTheHippo

nice post, thx.
Regard,
Abu

Posted at 1:42 am on Feb 3rd, 2009 by abula

cool man!!!nice

Posted at 11:26 am on Apr 17th, 2009 by dollemetan