It’s rare that I get to work on personal projects, but I took some time this past weekend to work on my replica Payphone from Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure. I’ve been wanting to do this for over a decade, so I’m extremely happy to finally get this far. I made a mold and cast the star key as well as a blank button for the “infinity” key in clear epoxy.
I then wired up a light kit, wired it to some micro LEDs along with the right capacitors to make it blink at the proper speed and sequence. I then mounted the LEDs to the buttons of a sound card which I had already downloaded some sounds from the movie. My LEDs where super white, so I put a strip of yellow poster paper before mounting everything back to the payphone. All these parts, except for the payphone, were parts I already had so that made things go smoothly.
I’m also going to add the guts of a retro cell phone handset as well as a cell phone cradle on the side so it can be functional with any cell phone. I may also modify this down the road so that the keypad buttons stick out more since the keypad this particular payphone came with was more on the flush side.
When I have more time, I’ll start working on my phone booth .
I then wired up a light kit, wired it to some micro LEDs along with the right capacitors to make it blink at the proper speed and sequence. I then mounted the LEDs to the buttons of a sound card which I had already downloaded some sounds from the movie. My LEDs where super white, so I put a strip of yellow poster paper before mounting everything back to the payphone. All these parts, except for the payphone, were parts I already had so that made things go smoothly.
I’m also going to add the guts of a retro cell phone handset as well as a cell phone cradle on the side so it can be functional with any cell phone. I may also modify this down the road so that the keypad buttons stick out more since the keypad this particular payphone came with was more on the flush side.
When I have more time, I’ll start working on my phone booth .
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