Collaborate Disseminate
It’s no secret that the era of the landline telephone is slowly coming to a close. As of 2020, it was estimated that less than half the homes in America …read more Continue reading Arduino Caller ID Display is Better Late than Never
If you stop to think, the number of pre-recorded voices and sounds you might hear on an average day might number in the hundreds. Everything from subway announcements, alerts on …read more Continue reading The Hidden Sounds Of The Past
Compared to most small LCDs sold to makers, smartphone screens boast excellent color, brightness, and insanely high resolution. Unfortunately, driving them is rarely straightforward. In an attempt to make it …read more Continue reading How To Drive Smartphone Screens Over HDMI
The arrival of LoRa a few years ago gave us at last an accessible licence-free UHF communication protocol with significant range. It’s closed-source, but there are plenty of modules available …read more Continue reading LoRa Messenger in Nokia’s Shell
Retro tech is cool. Retro tech that works is even cooler. When we can see technology working, hold it in our hand, and use it as though we’ve been transported …read more Continue reading How to Run a First-Generation Cell Phone Network
I often think we — or maybe the people who control our money — lack the audacity to take on really big projects. It is hard to imagine laying the …read more Continue reading Technical Audacity and the Phone Book
Today the Nokia brand can be found on a range of well-screwed-together Androind phones and a few feature phones, but as older readers will remember that before their descent into …read more Continue reading Fix Your Nokia’s White Screen Of Death
The modern consumer is not overly concerned with their phone conversations being monitored. For one thing, Google and Amazon have done a tremendous job of conditioning them to believe that electronic gadgets listening to their every word isn’t just acceptable, …read more
Do you remember when smartphones had real physical keyboards? Working the command line on some remote machine over SSH was a breeze, and you could even knock out a few lines of code if you were so inclined. But these days you’ve either got to lug around an external keyboard, …read more
Continue reading PinePhone Gets 3D Printed Mechanical Keyboard
Phones used to be phones. Then we got cordless phones which were part phone and part radio. Then we got cell phones. But with smartphones, we have a phone that is both a radio and a computer. Tiny battery operated computers are typically a bit anemic, but as technology marches …read more