Dialing Up Dinner: Hacking a Blue Light Phone to Order Pizza
During a deployment of blue light phones at a university, one of the units got damaged and needed replacing. Somehow, I ended up with a broken Talkaphone VoIP 600 sitting next to my desk. That’s when a thought crossed my mind: wouldn’t it be hilarious to use an emergency phone to order pizza? With that idea in mind, I rushed home to see if I could revive the unit. Unfortunately, the circuit board was fried, and the components were far too small for me to attempt soldering by hand. Luckily, I happened to chat with someone on the engineering team at the company, and they sent me a replacement board they had on hand. After a bit of tinkering… behold, I was able to order pizza! Sure, it might have been an easy and silly project, but it was incredibly fun to take an idea that existed only in my mind and make it a reality.