The kind of propaganda the world needs.

Exploding The Phone This 1939 BBC TV broadcast, which took viewers behind the scenes of a telephone exchange, must have been fascinating:

Exploding The Phone Here's more about it: illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early-b…

A six-part series about the creation of ARPANET and the birth of the Internet.

Interested in migrating AI workloads to edge devices? Join Qualcomm's Deep Dive workshop on May 20 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Learn to optimize models with Qualcomm AI Hub. Registration is just $25. embeddedvisionsummit.com/deep-dive-days/

Want to run YOLO at 25 fps on less than a quarter of a watt? Or maybe you’d like a machine vision camera that can run on batteries for years? Kwabena Agyeman, President of OpenMV, will explain how in his presentation at the Embedded Vision Summit: embeddedvisionsummit.com/2025/session/r…

Registration is now open for the fourth annual Women in Vision Networking Reception at the Embedded Vision Summit. RSVP for the free event using the link in comments and please share with other women in AI! Summit registration is not required. edge-ai-vision.swoogo.com/WiV2025

Technicians monitor TV transmission quality in the switching center for AT&T's Long Lines Department in New York, 1966.

Vision-language models (VLMs) promise to revolutionize computer vision—but how can you take advantage of them in real-world applications? Join us for an intensive three-hour training session designed to introduce the latest techniques in VLMs: embeddedvisionsummit.com/vlm-training/

At the Embedded Vision Summit, BrainChip will demo Akida 1.0 on Raspberry Pi 5, Akida 2.0 on FPGA and their Temporal Event-Based Neural Networks (TENNs), highlighting cutting-edge vision, audio and LLM applications. BrainChip #BRN #AI #edge #neuromorphic #Akida #TENNs

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Théo Z V Champion is the author of this gorgeous, carefully detailed retro build, which uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to play a poem when you lift the receiver of a 1980s French Socotel S63 rotary telephone. From issue 152 of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, out now:

Ever wonder why your household measuring tape shows metric and imperial units of length? Who really uses both? That’s right: nobody! The latest tool in Mini-Circuits' growing line of measurement accessories: a tape for measuring frequencies from 300 kHz to 300 GHz. #aprilfools

I've been trying to sell this Imsai for several weeks with local pickup, you arrange shipping and possible mobile local pickup. No takers. So I finally added shipping and listed it on ePay. ebay.com/itm/2568955518…

And the cover of a 1930s Slovenian phone book: (Source: Matej Družnik, 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘰)

One of my favorite projects in a while! I found this brand new, never-installed, still in the box payphone. It's a Nortel Millennium Digital, common in the 90s and 00s. The first problem is that it needs to connect to the phone company for rates and tables, etc, so I had to

Exploding The Phone A story of a Vermont man who's bringing old payphones back to life but is making them free this time around: youtube.com/watch?v=DwXTUM…

In the early days of radio, Americans were encouraged to tour the country using their radio receivers. Here's an excerpt from 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘪𝘳 by Tom Lewis:

Another episode in the series looked at the telephone: youtube.com/watch?v=7R9bHJ… Exploding The Phone

A West German answering machine from 1973. Exploding The Phone