{"slug": "vintage-phone-ai-assistant", "title": "Vintage phone AI assistant", "summary": "Ramazan Eren Arslan converted a Deutsche Bundespost FeTAp 791 rotary telephone into a voice assistant, with the build documented on Hackster.io. Lifting the handset and speaking routes the query to Google Gemini, which answers through the phone's original earpiece, with a Raspberry Pi 3B installed inside the housing in place of the original PCB and the hook switch wired to GPIO.", "body_md": "Ramazan Eren Arslan turned a Deutsche Bundespost FeTAp 791 rotary telephone into a voice assistant, with the build documented on Hackster.io. Lift the handset and talk, and Google Gemini answers through the original earpiece. A Raspberry Pi 3B sits inside the phone where the original PCB used to be. The hook switch wires to GPIO […]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vintage-phone-ai-assistant", "canonical_source": "https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/29/vintage-phone-ai-assistant/", "published_at": "2026-10-29 21:29:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-29 21:48:29.744188+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "generative-ai", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Ramazan Eren Arslan", "Deutsche Bundespost", "FeTAp 791", "Hackster.io", "Google Gemini", "Raspberry Pi 3B"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vintage-phone-ai-assistant", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vintage-phone-ai-assistant.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vintage-phone-ai-assistant.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/vintage-phone-ai-assistant.jsonld"}}