Building Alexa into a Rotary Phone

How I built an Alexa-powered rotary phone with a Raspberry PI and some LEDs

Mike Dodge

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TL;DR — I built Alexa into a rotary phone and setup the rotary dialer to trigger actions on my other Alexa devices.

1956 Western Electric Model 500, powered by Alexa

Parts required

  • an old rotary phone
  • a Raspberry PI 3

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Mike Dodge

As Principal Design Technologist in Alexa Voice Shopping at Amazon, I design and build prototypes that define the future of voice and multi-model shopping.