This year, I built a toy for my grandkids for Christmas, using a rotary dial salvaged from a Goodwill find. It has two 7-seg LEDs and a switch to select up or down counting or dialled digit display.

Today in old school nostalgia our tipster [Clint Jay] wrote in to let us know about this rotary dial. If you’re a young whippersnapper you might never have seen a rotary dial. These things we… ...

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.

One very bored programmer recreated a rotary dial in the browser — but good luck using it if you can't stay within the circle.

In the 1960s touch-tone phones (those with buttons) began to take over from the rotary dial models. But some towns held out long past the near-universal dial telephone system.

And now tinkerer Davis Remmel has put Siri inside a rotary dial phone, somehow completing the circle. Davis's hack involves an old phone, a Bluetooth headset and a little re-wiring.

First, you’ll need a rotary dial phone with enough space for your Raspberry Pi and wires. Models from the 1970s or 1980s often have roomy interiors so that you can organize cables without ...

An engineer has created a working cell phone that includes a rotary dial instead of a display. It’s available for $240, though you’ll have to build it yourself.

A frustrated Justine Haupt came up with an unorthodox solution: she designed and built a mobile phone with a rotary dial that looks […] The post Someone Built a Distraction-Free Cellphone With a ...

Paweł Zadrożniak is behind the invention, which is exactly what it looks like: a cell phone that makes calls using a rotary dial. According to Zadrożniak, the accessory uses a "Nordic ...

News; US News; Space engineer creates mobile phone using a rotary dial - yours for £132 Justine Haupt invented the retro phone to stop herself being “hyper-connected” with people, saying 'I ...