Vol. 25: Vintage VoIP

Convert a classic 1930s telephone into a Skype phone.

By Andrew Lewis

Photos by Ed Troxell, Andrew Lewis

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Ringer Conversion
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Hi there,

I have the ringer conversion set up. But the phone rings very muted and low. Any suggestions. Are my coils damaged. And if yes, how do i test them.

thx
Posted by christoph77 on May 30, 2011 at 14:19:20 Pacific Time

Rotary Dial
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Hi,

despite my problems with the ringer conversion. I managed to read the numbers of the rotary dial with a little bit of arduino code. I intend to change your .py script to hand the numbers over to the sykpe program.

Since you do not give any licensing information, I'd like to know if you mind publishing your altered code here in the comments so that other people can use it?

thx
Posted by christoph77 on June 02, 2011 at 07:04:14 Pacific Time

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