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A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino

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224 points guerrilla | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 19:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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M95D ◴[21 Oct 24 12:26 UTC] No.41903414[source]▶
MakerPhone / Ringo was far better.

It was actually a real phone based on ESP32 + a GSM/LTE module. It could make phone calls, SMS, had games, apps, etc. at the level of what early 2000 GSM phones could do. Project is abandoned now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/albertgajsak/makerphone...

https://github.com/CircuitMess/CircuitMess-Ringo

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1. catherd ◴[22 Oct 24 01:17 UTC] No.41910251[source]▶
"Better" depends on what you are after. In my world better means not being tied to using proprietary communication protocols over compromised networks with hardware I don't really own/can't control.

The makerphone was a learning tool and built to that spec. It wouldn't survive being carried around in your pocket, for example, but it was fine for teaching you how to program and how a phone works.