[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 ...

That script checks a code from this rotary dial for authentication. An Arduino takes care of listening for each digit that is entered and then sends the code via USB for comparison with a stored file.

Makers and ordering your enthusiasts looking for a new project to keep them busy may be interested in this new Arduino rotary phone hack which uses an Arduino Pro Mini and a SIM900 GSM shield ...

It embeds an Arduino and a two-line LCD screen into a vintage telephone. To Tweet, you lift the handset and dial. Letters are selected just like on a pushbutton phone.

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.

This one caught my eye on twitter - a Redditor has converted a 1961 Western Electric Model 500 telephone into a rotary cell phone using Arduino.

Unique shifter designs such as rotary dial shifter have become increasingly visible over the last decade. How do they change the way you interact with your car?

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 ...

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 ...

YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.

We will call you back." To make the phone, the team connected an Arduino micro-controller to its original circuitry, and wired up the receiver, bell and dial to function as basic inputs and outputs.