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Arduino-Controlled Rotary Telephone - DIY Escape Room Prop Tutorial

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This course shows how to convert a 1970s rotary telephone into an escape-room prop using an Arduino, DFPlayer Mini, and custom wiring. It covers hardware integration and finite-state programming for incoming calls, outgoing calls, audio messages, and external device control.

Syllabus

00:00- Introduction
00:44- Demonstration of incoming and outgoing calls
03:36- Hardware design decisions
06:57- Identifying components of the telephone handset
15:28- Wiring the telephone hardware to the Arduino
26:12- Using a Finite State Machine FSM to model telephone behaviour
29:29- Arduino ESP8266/ESP32 code listing
01:06:02- Wrapup

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