{"id":20249,"date":"2020-05-21T21:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20249"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:14:45","slug":"lorraine-underwood-hacks-vintage-style-telephones-with-raspberry-pis-to-create-an-intercom-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20249","title":{"rendered":"Lorraine Underwood hacks vintage-style telephones with Raspberry Pis to create an intercom system"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lorraine Underwood<\/a> has entered the Element14\u00a0<\/span>#badass Women Makers and Engineers Contest with this great hack of a couple of vintage-style telephones from Amazon<\/a>. She removed the plate on the bottom of the telephones and fitted a Raspberry Pi. She then did a lot of exploratory work with a breadboard, electrical chocolate blocks and LEDs to find out which button did what. She then used Mumble server and client installations<\/a> to do the software part. The audio input\/output to\/from the Raspberry Pis was done with USB sound adapters (after which a\u00a0lot<\/strong> of messing about with config files was necessary!) You can follow Lorraine’s post on Element14 here<\/a>. The code for the project is on GitHub<\/a> and you can watch an\u00a0excellent<\/strong> 20-minute video<\/a> about the project below:<\/span><\/p>\n