American technician offers kit for making a mobile phone with a turntable

The American technician who showed her project of a self-built mobile phone with a turntable last week, is offering a diy kit from this week with which users can assemble such a phone themselves. Many other parts are still needed.

The kit has the pcb and a 3d-printed housing, according to the site. Users still have to order many parts themselves, including the turntable itself, an Adafruit Fona 3g for connection to mobile networks, the battery and the electronic ink screen. In addition, the current version of the software still contains a number of bugs; for example, showing the caller’s number doesn’t work and there seems to be a problem with audio quality.

With the kit and the ordered parts, users can create their own version of the rotary mobile phone. The phone is mainly aimed at controlling a mobile phone with buttons. The phone has a switch to turn the device on or off and function buttons to, for example, call specific people. By day, Haupt is a technician making equipment for astronomy at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and is working on his own robot development company. The kit costs $170, only the PCB is $90. The delivery time is six weeks at the time of writing.