[Max] had a rotary dial from an old telephone and — unsurprisingly — had nothing in particular to do with it. The simple answer? Use an Arduino Leonardo to turn it into a USB keyboard device.

It’s safe to say that few people still use rotary phones on a daily basis. Hell, most of us don’t even use landline telephones anymore. But just because these classic phones are no long… ...

Makers and ordering your enthusiasts looking for a new project to keep them busy may be interested in this new Arduino rotary phone hack ... When I dial 2 or 3, it calls one of my sons, and so ...

This one caught my eye on twitter – a Redditor has converted a 1961 Western Electric Model 500 old-style telephone into a rotary cell phone using Arduino. It’s an impressive project that not only uses ...

Nobody has ever wished that Twitter’s 140-character limit were even stricter, but then, nobody before had ever tried Tweeting from an old-school rotary-dial phone. Enter Tweephone, a phone that ...

Rotobooth is a photo booth controlled by an embedded rotary telephone, and there are two ways to use it. You can dial ‘0’ to take a photo, which is automatically uploaded to Flickr.

As convenient as modern cellphones are, there's a certain charm to spinning an old-fashioned rotary dial to make a call -- and now, there's a cellphone that caters to that nostalgia. Brookhaven ...

The Arduino records input from the dial, reformats it to an IP address and retrieves the HTML data. This is then parsed, and the data sent to a speech synthesiser.

Call it synchronicity, or manually setting a 16-bit number in an Arduino, or how to turn an OLED into a rotary dial... What am I talking about? Well, I was just compiling the blogs pages for the next ...