Landline telephones are very almost out of date at this level. Most of us rely totally on our smartphones and even those that nonetheless require landlines will normally select trendy digital VoIP (Voice over Web Protocol) fashions. That implies that our landfills and thrift shops are overflowing with primary previous landline telephones that no one is aware of what to do with. However one answer is to comply with the lead of Turi Scandurra to repurpose a landline cellphone as a private jukebox.
Scandurra’s Jukephone has a shocking variety of options. To take heed to a selected monitor, the person can decide up the handset and dial quantity (between one and three digits). Scandurra helpfully organized these by style, so dialing “151” will play some clean jazz and dialing “551” will play some bangin’ EDM. There are different buttons on the cellphone for earlier/subsequent monitor, quantity adjustment, play/pause, random monitor, repeat, equalizer adjustment, and monitor restart. In brief, it’s nearly as good as an iPod.
To make this all work, Scandurra first threw out the entire unique digital elements. The one exception was the keypad matrix, which Scandurra reverse-engineered to have the ability to monitor. A Raspberry Pi Pico growth board appears for key presses after which acts accordingly. It controls the music that performs on a DFRobot DFPlayer Mini MP3 participant. That, in flip, pumps out music by the handset’s speaker. There’s additionally a headphone jack on the outside of the machine if the person would favor to attach exterior audio system or headphones.
Energy comes from a small lithium battery pack by a charging board. Scandurra mounted that on a 3D-printed half in order that the USB charging port is accessible from the surface. Equally, the DFPlayer Mini was positioned so the person can get to the SD card in the event that they need to change the music library.
For fashion, Scandurra gave the whole cellphone a pleasant coat of pink spray paint and painted by hand new labels on the keys. The ultimate contact was somewhat listing card beneath the handset that offers the person an summary of the obtainable genres and their numbers.