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Isaac W :verified: :verified:
@pieist @Standplaats_KRK Did the app make clicking sound effects as it went past each number?
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
@isaacw @Standplaats_KRK Yeah, it does all the rotary dial things. There are a few of them around, personally I like this one for its skeuomorphic grubbiness. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintagephone/id438179925 
Rebecca
@Standplaats_KRK Do you want to make logging into your computer an even bigger hassle?! Well now you can! 
ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳🌈
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Lisa
@ScottSoCal I know someone connected an RSS feed aggregator to a morse receiver a few years back... it'd just start tapping things out whenever something new showed up. Not sure it's been done the other way though.
Arden (she/her)
@ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK let’s add smoke signals and semaphore flags to the list whilst we’re at it. 
Dawid Rejowski
Should be easy to do with Raspberry's POGO pins and simple script reading pins translating it to xdotool commands 🥴
Holir_
@ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK handful of videos on YouTube about it. Between keyboard, radio, & anachronistic folk Id be surprised if there wasn't pre-built kits. 
Wilfried Klaebe
@ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK But why a RasPi? A ATmega32u4 should be enough for that! They can emulate a HID, and one digital input pin is enough... Maybe with v-usb, even a tiny85 would suffice... 
Max
@wonka @ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK an off-the-shelf pro micro, slap QMK on it, and write some glue to interpret morse to keycodes. Kinda like tapdances, but not quite. 
LAUREN
@ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK
OddOpinions5
There must be whole books of abbreviations for use with telegraphs I have always wondered why no one has tried to popularize those for the social media era
Az
@Standplaats_KRK @shmouflon to go with my weird keyboards? although i think i'd go berko trying to fill in my timesheets while wfh.    
LucifarGundam
@That_AC @Standplaats_KRK 
Bruce Heerssen
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barelysecure
@Standplaats_KRK this is why the internet exists, got my stack of bandaids at the ready  
Roman Luštrik
@Standplaats_KRK dont't-. don't givem them ideas (closes eyes, rubbing them with thumb and index finger, releasing a loud sigh)
Sylvia :QueerCatHeart_Lesbian:
@Standplaats_KRK playing a rogue like on this would be a massive pain
Emanuele
@Standplaats_KRK @aral the project can be seen here: https://squidgeefish.com/projects/rotary-keyboard/
Queen Chinee
@Standplaats_KRK Hand dialing 10 digit phone numbers to do telephone surveys cured me of any desire to have a rotary phone ever again. We didn't use autodialers in the seventies, just our fingers.
styrofoamSkillet
@Standplaats_KRK paging @atpfm because @siracusa probably grew up using a rotary phone, @marcoarment would like this better than butterfly keyboards, and @caseyliss would love the ritual of its use.
stephaniepixie 🏳️🌈
Was just thinking how there’s fewer and fewer people who recognize rotary phone dials and how that could almost be used as a replacement for a safe turn dial 😄
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Pengi
@Standplaats_KRK Haha, it all makes sense. I've been thinking what I should do with my old phone I still have. Also, probably a sound card for the headset, and in some way make the ringer work too.
Atomic Fox
What you want is an ATA and something running the Asterisk software. Here's such a project, although not using a rotary dial. 
Jeiel Aranal
@Standplaats_KRK People are seeing the rotary numpad, but not the number row that has been sadistically ripped out.
Walid Damouny
@Standplaats_KRK The Excel community profusely thanks the inventor with a baseball bat and a bunch of kicks. 
m0xEE
@Standplaats_KRK Replacing the keyboard itself with a typewriter would take this to the next level. And rotary dial would blend in even better 🤣
Einfach Nein :verified:
@Standplaats_KRK image description lacks the bonus move of blocking the numbers row on the regular typewriter part as well. I think it is worth appreciating
AmmieGa500
@Standplaats_KRK It's common in fighting game groups to use numpad notation to refer to directions on the joystick, such as using 2 for down, 6 for forward, etc. Anyway, I shared this keyboard in my fighting game discord and caused mass panic
Jeff Phillips
@Standplaats_KRK Speaking of modern electronics with rotary dials, these cell phones are amazing! 😀
0xC01DC0FFEE
@Standplaats_KRK Disabling the other number keys is a nice touch. This is probably the kind of keyboard they use in hell
AGMS
Oddly enough, the EDSAC computer had a telephone dial added for real-time number input, some time in the 1950s. So if you hooked it up to an EDSAC emulator… https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/university-archives/glossary/edsac
Atomic Fox
Xcor used a rotary dial to set the time for test-firings of their small rocket engine test stand, in the first decade of this century, because the microcontroller had a free pin which could be used for accepting pulses.
arxify
@Standplaats_KRK mechanical numpad haha funny, but why is there a damn spacebar in the middle of the keyboard?? 
Gord
@Standplaats_KRK Ah crap, you just gave me a new project. I have a million rotary phones laying around.  
Trash Panda
@Standplaats_KRK@mastodon.social Imagine playing videogames with that. Using it for like... Casting spells or something.
she hacked you
@Standplaats_KRK I have never needed a numpad but I like the retro artistic aspect of this. Though I kinda want to just steal the rotary part and toss the rest.
Gottfried Szing
@Standplaats_KRK this is the opposite of #digitization. is there something like #analogization? 🤔 
Silverlion
@Standplaats_KRK Time cowboy up and ride that cyberdeck across the void of corporate datasites?
RMR
@Standplaats_KRK
Nicolas Delsaux
@Standplaats_KRK Is it approved by Nanoraptor (which doesn't seems to have any mastodon identity) ? 
mirabilos
@Standplaats_KRK that stops the confusion on whether the 123 row is top or bottom, at least… (I still regularily get numbers typed in wrongly and remember PINs by movement not numbers for that reason)
Joey Gibson :fez:
@Standplaats_KRK I've got a telegraph key from the 1950s; I wonder if I could build something similar. 😂 I actually wired it to a Raspberry Pi a few years ago, and started working on some code to read from it as Morse, but got distracted, and never got back to it.
Paul Houle
@Standplaats_KRK back in the day I would “dial” the phone by rapidly hitting the switch hook (e.g. six rapid taps is a 6). If you found it was too hard to “dial” seven or eleven digits that way you could take the easy way out, tap the switchhook ten times, and tell the operator your dial was busted and could she please dial a number for you  
Kevin Karhan :verified:
@Raz @Standplaats_KRK I can't stop hearing that in Christopher Judge's Voice... Because I read it "indeed"...
Kevin Karhan :verified:
@Standplaats_KRK not good, doesn't have + - * : and = keys! Unlike a real 100% Keyboard!
Wintermute
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@Standplaats_KRK I've long had a rotary dial app on my iPhone, never used it or mentioned it to anyone. One day my wife asked me to make a call I didn't much want to make, so I wearily and dramatically started to dial...
The laugh she gave me was definitely worth it.