Raspberry Pi Stranger Things Phone Prop Designed for Season 4 Premiere
Guy Dupont has created an interactive telephone prop using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi RP2040. According to Dupont; he was commissioned to create this prop for the Stranger Things season 4 premiere event; but that the booth it as to be featured in wasn’t use.
Dupont explains the vintage phone was planned to be positioned in a booth resembling a 1980s pizza shop. What looks like an unassuming prop would occasionally ring. When guests pick up the phone; they would hear random sound bites from the show, scary sound effects and even random pizza orders. Lifting the phone off the hook returns a dial tone sound; the buttons work with an audible sound for each keypress and the speaker will returns a disconnected sound once a number has been dialed.
If you haven’t heard of Dupont before, you should definitely check out his project history. Dupont is a software developer and audio engineer with plenty of experience in microelectronics. You can find more of his work on Hackaday as well as videos of his work in action over at his official YouTube channel.
The project is designed to use a vintage ITT phone and as much of the original hardware as possible which includes the dial pad, receiver and hook. The audio logic is handled using a Sparkfun RP2040 Thing Plus along with an Adafruit UDA1334A breakout. Sound bites are played through the earpiece in the receiver while a 3W speaker is used for the ring effect.
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