#badass Woman Project Entry - Lorraine Underwood

kellyhensen — Tue, 19 May 2020 16:24:05 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by kellyhensen on 5/19/2020 4:24:05 PM

Name: Lorraine Underwood

Current home town: I live in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom but am from Dublin, Ireland.

Did you attend university? Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. BSc Computer Science

Current Job: Senior Teaching Associate, Lancaster University. I teach on a minor in Creative and Applied Computing to first year undergraduates. I'm also an author! My book Save the World with Code: 20 Fun Projects for All Ages Using Raspberry Pi, micro:bit, and Circuit Playground Express is out this year.

Your favorite electronics projects from element14 presents or youtube :

From YouTube:

They haven't done videos in a while but Pimoroni

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuiDNTaTdPTGZZzHm0iriGQ/videos

and Geek Gurl Diaries

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxrp2coE9wRrnlOO3V3UmdQ

Love these light tiny sculptures by Jiri

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6AdKjYOjNTsvr0Ichf0EA

Crazy electronic lights by bitluni

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp_5PO66faM4dBFbFFBdPSQ

General making videos by Bob and I like to make stuff

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6x7GwJxuoABSosgVXDYtTw

Geeky Computing stuff by Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA

Your project:

My project is to hack a landline telephone using a raspberry pi and set it up as an internal comms device in my house. I like the idea of hacking an old piece of tech with a new one and really loved hacking the telephone buttons for this project.

The project using a mumble server run on one of the raspberry pis, the two pis are clients. They are actually communicating all the time but have their microphones turned off.

When phone A lifts up its receiver and presses a button it turns on its microphone and phone B will hear it.

Links or files that support your project?

GitHub code: https://github.com/Lorrainbow/HomeIntercom

Here's the phone I used: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0744QXP3S

Your Project video:

www.youtube.com/watch

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