Payphone+hacking+-+inspiration,+guides,+etc.


 * [[image:http://www.templetons.com/brad/pq/Thumb-playaphone.jpg width="60" height="111"]] Brad Templeton's **Burning Man VoIP payphone**: http://www.templetons.com/brad/pq/
 * "Phillip Torrone (of Make & adafruit) talks about how to hack a traditional pay phone, connect it to a computer so it can be used with Skype, modify it so it requires quarters, or even make it so it requires a red box to simulate the sound of quarters dropping in". Not many technical details, though...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR4IGmCrJUg
 * "This is a simple hack to use your cellphone in to the pay phone":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ntKI0551U
 * Instructable " Payphone in the Home ":@http://www.instructables.com/id/Payphone-in-the-Home/
 * "Citizen Engineer – Phones: SIM card & payphone hacking" -- Good description of the insides -- starting around 12:00:@http://blog.makezine.com/2008/07/18/citizen-engineer-phones-s/
 * From [|Wireless World]: "In 1969 the first non-experimental cellular call was made from a service running on Metroliner trains from New York City to Washington DC, where passengers found that they could "conveniently make telephone calls while racing along at better than 100 miles an hour" (Paul, 1969). **This also means that (ironically) the first cellular phone calls were made by a payphone**" (p. 8).
 * [|Payphone project] on github: configuring a (dumb) payphone to make and receive calls through an Asterisk PBX.

Instruction videos (by [|Conway668]):
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 * Replacing the handset (starts with a nice short tour of the insides)
 * Clearing a coin jam:
 * What happens when you shoot a bullet in the coin box: