Comments on: Easy dial telephone

By: Jullicer E. Dico

Jullicer E. Dico — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:03:13 +0000

this was nice!

can you give me a circuit of with both a auto-dial and push to dial please i badly needed it for my project.

By: mbear

mbear — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:41:20 +0000

“@sneakpoo :
No, she cant see a picture of the person she wants to call. But lighted button is easy to find a press.”

“@Zendu :
As i repeatedly said, she can’t see properly. Not to speak of reading lables. Her eyes have been operated a few times and currently undergoing laser treatment. So the best thing is to have a big receiver that is easily locatable, and buttons that emit light, so she can see the yellow spot on the wall that she has to press. ”

Taufeeq, I can already see your next Grandma Gift: Updating the phone so that next to it is a backlit photograph collage of her family members and their “new” phone numbers. (Which in this case is probably just a big red arrow pointing to the correct button! ;) )

By: miguel

miguel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:34:58 +0000

um isnt this called speed dial?

By: Taufeeq Elahi

Taufeeq Elahi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:46:37 +0000

@Random667 :
Everyone here who produces hacks and backward experiments must be an ass for you. You are logged on to the wrong website if you want to buy something from market and use it.

By: superlopez

superlopez — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:55:44 +0000

“Balloons will be in readily accessible locations, visible from nearby roadways and accompanied by DARPA representatives”

1 calculate max line of sight to a red ballon of all US road from air for (something like FL100)
2 sign on facebook to request help from private pilots , coordinate search areas
3 …
4 profit!

By: Doom2099

Doom2099 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:37:02 +0000

great hack.

reminds me of a important government phone.
“Yes, Mr. President we received the launch codes.”

By: paul

paul — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:27:07 +0000

man, everyone’s a critic! I second the 1st post. good job!

By: je5us

je5us — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:55:49 +0000

although, labels for the buttons wouldn’t be a bad idea, she just might have visitors over who can read and need to ring someone

By: Random667

Random667 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:56:28 +0000

Just buy your grandmother a jitterbug you cheap ass!

By: arrangemonk

arrangemonk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:15:41 +0000

yeah, touchscreen and 2 buttons, she has to press the left or right button until she recognizes the dude she wants to call

By: Taufeeq Elahi

Taufeeq Elahi — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:37:13 +0000

@IceBrain :
Thanks, and yours was an interesting post :) “USELESS HACK” ha ha.

@sneakpoo :
No, she cant see a picture of the person she wants to call. But lighted button is easy to find a press.

@Jon :
Wow, good luck for your dad. He was lucky to find a phone that fitted his needs.
I had to build one to fulfil the requirement.

@vonskippy :
ha ha, no she does not eat pizza!

@FW :
Do keep me posted on my email if you ever make one for your old relatives.
Enhance the idea, it will be my pleasure.

@JanousKhan :
Yes such a function can be implemented.

@Benny M :
Yes, sure there are rules. But this device is a piggy back on a regular telephone. In this case, I am not tampering with the POTS in any way. Its just that a microcontroller is dialing a number instead of your fingers. Things like stealing electricity from telephone line is unlawful.

@Zendu :
As i repeatedly said, she cant see properly. Not to speak of reading lables. Her eyes have been operated a few times and currently undergoing laser treatment. So the best thing is to have a big receiver that is easily locatable, and buttons that emit light, so she can see the yellow spot on the wall that she has to press. its a purpose built phone, and had the exact thing that was needed in the given situation. Putting an emergency button or a pizza button, or a big button wont do any good to it :) You might put a huge button for a parkensons patient, it depends on the need.

By: Zendu

Zendu — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:50:16 +0000

It seems a pretty large oversight to not put an emergency button on the base. Also, why not label the buttons, even a sharpie would be better than it is now…

By: Benny M

Benny M — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:28:27 +0000

I think that would be illegal. Aren’t there laws in most western countries saying that hardware that hasn’t been checked and authorised by a Telecommunications authority?

Nonetheless, very well done!

By: JanousKhan

JanousKhan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:50:16 +0000

Nice, any chance of making it auto dial a default number after a short time. would be nice to have the phone dial a number if the phone is taken off the hook for say 1 min.

By: FW

FW — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:56:11 +0000

Poor gramma – having to dial numbers in binary… :(

Seriously, nice idea. This would work out well for my older relatives and I might just go down the same road. Nice work.