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Chat Online with Cordless Phone

Posted by Zonk on from the who-doesn't-like-a-rainy-day-project? dept.

buckymatters writes "Christoffer Järnåker has converted an old home phone to be used with Skype, MSN voice chat or other similar software. Using the 'highly scientific method Trial and Error' he uncovered the input and output of the phone, wired it up and began talking 300 meters away from his computer on MSN."

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  1. Shouldn't a real story go here? by jmulvey · · Score: -1, Troll

    With all the rejected submissions, shouldn't this story be replaced by one which was not simply a plug for Skype? I mean, great, some guy who has a website that can handle --max-- 3 users concurrently, has decided to document his ability to take some off-brand phone and wire it up to Skype.

    Great. So what.

  2. I agree by 0x000000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    3 users? The site is already at a crawl, and i doubt that many slashdotters are online, as it is midnight in the most of the US. Maybe california or Washington.

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  3. I thank 7ou for your time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OF AMeRICA) today,

  4. Re:"+3, Troll" is my reward by jmulvey · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, I'm just waiting for the inevitable punchdown from the "true" moderators here. VA Software is a corporation just like any other. They have interests, they're just less forthright about them than other companies.

  5. Re:He should have used DC blocking capacitors.... by JollyGoodChase · · Score: -1, Troll

    Took the words right out of my pie hole. While the DC power cube transformer is not the most delicate piece of hardware, the amperage across a typical 44.32 MHz transmitter is substantial.
    I was also worried that the velocity modulated (periodically bunched) voltage applied to the klyston would result in damping of the skywave