November 2021 – Dial-A-Grue

Work done in the last year and a half

Pneumatic | 2021-11-20

In the last year and a half, I’ve done a little cleanup of the code, and also made a couple of improvements. Most notably, you can now use the dial (either rotary or touch-tone) to enter an “extension” where the games can be started. So you can dial ‘4’ to get Guess the animal or […]

The original phone make has been found

Pneumatic | 2021-11-20

The old phone that was used for GruePhone 2 has been identified. It’s a Heemaf type 1955. While attending (virtually) the Hackaday remoticon.2 bring-a-hack meetup, another participant recognized it as an old dutch phone, and pointed me at a couple of different pages that document old dutch phones. One is in dutch, and the other […]