{"id":16247,"date":"2017-01-16T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16247"},"modified":"2017-01-16T18:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:19:27","slug":"a-project-to-build-a-raspberry-pi-zero-driven-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16247","title":{"rendered":"A project to build a Raspberry Pi Zero-driven mobile phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16248\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16248\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">=<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There have been several Raspberry Pi-powered mobile phone builds over the\u00a0past few years (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12338\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Spadgenske<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11509\" target=\"_blank\">David Hunt<\/a>) but none have used the Pi Zero&#8230; until now. (<em>Cue dramatic music<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Arsenijs from Latvia has created the <strong>ZeroPhone<\/strong>, and he reckons it has only cost around $50 to build! It can be used for making calls, sending SMS messages and has various text-based mini-apps pre-loaded. It runs Raspbian and <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/10001-pylci-linux-control-interface\">pyLCI<\/a>\u00a0for the UI elements. The bill-of-materials is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pi Zero &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/whereismypizero.com\/\">easy to get<\/a> despite people on Internet still telling otherwise (I got 5 by now). Let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s 5$ and 5$ for shipping.<\/li>\n<li>SIM800 modules &#8211; available in large quantities from eBay, 5$.<\/li>\n<li>ESP8266-12E used for WiFi (<a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/8678-rpi-wifi\">as per RPi-WiFi project<\/a>) &#8211; 2$ from eBay<\/li>\n<li>Two-layer PCBs (two 4x10cm boards, one 4x6cm board) &#8211; can be ordered from your favourite fab or whatever people on Internet give good reviews about.<\/li>\n<li>ATMega328P &#8211; can be desoldered from an Arduino Pro Mini that&#8217;s typically 2$ on eBay, and it comes with a bootloader already! If you don&#8217;t have a heat gun, you can just buy a bare chip and burn a bootloader to it using a programmer.<\/li>\n<li>LCD screen &#8211; 5$ on eBay. Besides, a project like this can use other screen breakouts with similar characteristics (such as the ubiquitous Nokia displays) &#8211; it&#8217;s just a matter of writing a driver, which is easier than it sounds, and the front board accepts different display pinouts.<\/li>\n<li>Battery &#8211; you can use cell phone batteries, pouch and 18650 cells.<\/li>\n<li>TP4056 battery charger &#8211; modules are available from eBay, 1$.<\/li>\n<li>Buttons for keypad &#8211; 2$ from eBay (there are 3 types used, but you can omit one).<\/li>\n<li>2.54 headers (both dual-row and single-row) &#8211; dirt cheap. Won&#8217;t be more than 0.50$ to have enough to assemble the phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently at working prototype stage and is, basically, a Pi Zero sandwiched between circuit boards. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-smartphone\" target=\"_blank\">read more over on Hackaday.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been several Raspberry Pi-powered mobile phone builds over the\u00a0past few years (Tyler Spadgenske\u00a0and David Hunt) but none have used the Pi Zero&#8230; until now. (Cue dramatic music). Arsenijs from Latvia has created the ZeroPhone, and he reckons it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16247\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,50,39,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-techiness","category-making","category-programming","category-telecoms"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A project to build a Raspberry Pi Zero-driven mobile phone - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16247\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A project to build a Raspberry Pi Zero-driven mobile phone - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There have been several Raspberry Pi-powered mobile phone builds over the\u00a0past few years (Tyler Spadgenske\u00a0and David Hunt) but none have used the Pi Zero&#8230; until now. 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