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Pick up the phone, a Taylor Swift song is calling! « Adafruit Industries – Makers, Hackers, Artists, Designers and Engineers!
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Pick up the phone, a Taylor Swift song is calling! « Adafruit Industries – Makers, Hackers, Artists, Designers and Engineers!

Thanks to Elizabeth for sending in this fantastic rotary dial telephone design!

Hello: I thought this project might interest you. I
made it for my presentation at a STEM day for girls at the local high school. An Arduino Nano is programmed to make an old rotary dial phone ring when someone walks within three feet of the phone. When the phone is picked up, a clip of a Taylor Swift song plays.

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