V-Tech Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Okay, we'll admit that it looks a bit like a baby monitor. But in contrast to those over-engineered pieces of parenting paraphernalia, this DIY cellphone can actually make calls and send texts over GPRS. More importantly, Hackaday claims it was put together by a lone hacker ("Victorzie") from an assortment of off-the-shelf and modded parts, including a TFT touchscreen, lithium ion battery, charging circuit, GPRS module and shield. These components were hooked up to an Arduino Uno microcontroller running a barebones UI and then jammed into a 3D printed case, which makes the device look far more pocketable than some previous hackaphone efforts. The end result inspires big respect for the creator, but also, more grudgingly, for the pro engineers at places like Nokia, who can pull all this stuff together and even get it FCC-approved for just a few dollars. http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/22/arduino-hackaphone/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Considering the open source nature of Arduino, someone could take this guys design and the design plans of an appropriate Arduino and miniaturize the whole thing pretty easily. The Arduino UNO has probably the most wasted space of any of them out there. I mean..if 3D printing is part of the project, surely PCB fabing is as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Pretty impressive to do that much with an Uno. I would have thought that would blow away the memory it had. Definitely a cool project though. Wouldn't make a good cell phone, but the design and code could be used to make a pretty cool house phone running off a cell network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 where does he get a valid IMEI from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted July 22, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted July 22, 2013 ^^^ Intriguing point ^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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