Completely off topic, but the title reminded me of something that happened when my son was about 9yo. One day he comes in and asks me what the holes in the walls were for? Holes? What holes? So he brings me over and points at an empty phone jack. I said, "Oh! That's to plug in a phone, we don't use them." He nodded in understanding and went back to his room. A little while later he comes back with an iPhone, charge cable attached, and says, "I can't get it to work..." It was adorable. I explained that I was talking about old phones, like the ones at his abuela's house. He said, "Oh." and of course immediately lost interest.
You can see why I was reminded of it. It was, literally, an "unplugged phone mystery." I was half expecting to read a similar story. :-)
Weirdly enough there’s one of the original versions of this toy in the toy box at our local pub and my three year old saw it and immediately knew that it was a phone. I have absolutely no idea how.
We played football in the classroom with my Sony Ericsson K700i when I was in high school. I still have holes in my wall because I kept throwing it every time some game annoyed me.
My charger died, so I disassembled it and put the wires directly on the battery. Finally, I accidentally crossed the wires and the phone died after burning for like 2-3 minutes.
I love this project. The great thing about it, unlike many technically impressive projects, is that it's only going to get more and more fun to take this out as time goes on. If you seem crazy now, pull this phone out again in 10 years and check the reactions then.
We're entering a time where not only will it seem odd that some guy is talking into a disconnected rotary phone, but soon many people won't even know what it is that you're talking into. I was in a store the other day, and my daughter, who is almost 3 years old, pointed to a store phone mounted on the wall in the toy department and asked me "what's that?"
I once destroyed a cordless phone that wouldn't stop ringing (some annoying modem kept trying to call me) and I couldn't easily access the batteries. It made an ugly mark on the wall.
From the pic at https://youtu.be/SAekbJf4Gsw?t=28, looks like he was looking for gaps inside the phone to put some components, and making a super thin board to wire them all together.
You can see why I was reminded of it. It was, literally, an "unplugged phone mystery." I was half expecting to read a similar story. :-)
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