#badass Woman Project Entry - Lorraine Underwood

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

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alanmcdonley over 5 years ago

Superb engineering, with the complexities and solutions well explained.

Only issue is a usability - that dad burn mute button is always going to be left on! Either need the mute condition needs to flash light when someone calls, or allow call if someone calls twice in a short time period.
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lorrainbow over 5 years ago in reply to alanmcdonley

Yeah, exactly why it needs lights to indicate the status. Ooo I like the idea of it flashing when it rings, like the bat phone!
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lorrainbow over 5 years ago in reply to alanmcdonley

Yeah, exactly why it needs lights to indicate the status. Ooo I like the idea of it flashing when it rings, like the bat phone!
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