The Ploopy Knob comes fully assembled, and is ready to use right out of the box on Windows and Linux computers. While ...

Some grade school kids don’t even know what a landline is. Take a trip down memory lane as we look at phones through the ...

Janet McFetridge says the act of dialing a rotary phone really takes her back. "You’re at church and you’re calling for a ride home and so you dial that number and I’ll bet almost all of us ...

This particular phone goes back further than I do as it has retained its yellowed piece of paper at the center of the rotary that has its old exchange name and number: MElrose 1-1254.

Ode to the dial tone: An old Louisiana rotary phone prompts a trip down memory lane BY JAN RISHER | Staff writer Sep 8, 2024 3 min to read ...

[Scott-28] recently sent in a particularly well-documented project that turned an antique rotary phone into a digital kitchen timer using an internal Arduino.

From there, it was relatively easy to connect the dial to one of the pins on an Arduino Uno to determine which numbers the user had entered.

Turn an old analog rotary-dial phone into a remote control and alarm for a home automation system.

Jose Lopez of Cohoes felt powerless to help his grandmother during Hurricane Fiona, but he knows she's alive because she can talk on her old-style phone ...

Gadgets You Can Finally Buy This $390 Rotary Cell Phone DIY Kit Almost anyone can build the Rotary Un-Smartphone: no soldering, gluing, or programming required.

So why are rotary phones making a comeback? In these stressful times, people of all ages are obsessed with nostalgia and all things retro.