Hacker News: richdrichhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=richdrichHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:47:14 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by richdrich in "RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3"]]>This is very neat.

An uglier way to do it is with an off the shelf pulse to tone box and a router with VoIP support, like an N300.

Do you think it could use WiFi calling? I suspect that can't be done is it requires one of a limited set of carrier approved phones in each area.

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