The 970-HA-JOKES Payphone Project

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VOIP

At this point, VOIP technology is completely omnipresent. It’s cheap and easy to get an analog phone onto an ethernet network.

Obi200 VOIP inside Payphone

And while the inside of the phone housing was a little tight, getting an ObiHai Obi200 in there was not too hard. The Obi200 will move up and to the right of the ringer later on.

Payphone with ethernet cable

Payphone with ethernet connected

Calling my wife to ask her ‘Guess what I’m calling from?!?!?’ never happened because she didn’t recognize the Google Voice phone number and ignored it. I had to text her from my cell phone just to… You know what, never mind. I called her from a pay phone and it was AWESOME.