{"id":197,"date":"2008-11-20T04:07:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T08:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-11-20T04:07:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T08:07:49","slug":"reclaiming-payphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming Payphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned earlier, my PComp final will be addressing new uses for payphones.\u00a0 This is to make useful an antiquated service, as most people use their cell phone or VoIP on a wifi connection.\u00a0 How can we implement a new use for phonebooths that wouldn’t interfere with its functionality but expand it?<\/p>\n

As entertaining as the urine deterrent may be, I’m afraid that it wouldn’t be of much consequence.\u00a0 It might even perpetuate its use as a urinal, adding a celebrity status to a drunken piss.\u00a0 I had the idea to make a broadband photobooth.\u00a0 This would put all of the hardware into better use, making a novelty out of the mundane.<\/p>\n

I spoke to many ITPers, faculty and students, and although it’s straight-forward, it’ll take sometime to perfect since there are so many steps to the process.\u00a0 I’m sure as I move along, the process with be refined.<\/p>\n

The user will deposit coins (it is a PAYphone), and dial the number stencilled\/stickered.\u00a0 I’ll have an asterisk account setup to verify the payphone’s number.\u00a0 Asterisk will then send a HIGH value to the circuit that is soldered to a cannabalised digital camera.\u00a0 The camera, equipped with a wifi enable SD card (eye-fi), will take ~4 pictures, and upload to a flickr account I’ll setup.<\/p>\n

I will make a cardboard prototype, but I do have one of the phonebooths in front of our building in mind, since we have flatscreens in the windows.\u00a0 Ideally, one of these screens will be streaming the flickr slideshow.\u00a0 As far as content editting goes, maybe there’ll be a voting system that’ll screen what makes it to the screen.<\/p>\n

I am also interested in writing a patch to take pictures every 10 seconds or so when someone uses the phone.\u00a0 This would be an interesting, to either determine what type of call was made by body language or emotional response.\u00a0 A time-lapse photography would also be a nice expos\u00e9, haha I can see it now, “Lonely Technology.”<\/p>\n

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