Comment by _ZeD_

Comment by _ZeD_ 21 hours ago

3 replies

uhmm...

>>> As a weekend project, I hacked together a physical phone, a Raspberry Pi running Asterisk and Twilio, to let toddlers safely make international calls.

how often do toddlers make international calls???

Timwi 20 hours ago

It's right there in the post:

> I built this so kids of expats can easily stay in touch with family on other continents.

Just think of families fleeing from war or persecution. This isn't rare by any measure, unfortunately.

detaro 20 hours ago

that probably depends how many close family members they have abroad.

atemerev 20 hours ago

Ahem. Some people never heard of immigration/emigration?

(The system is valuable for adults too, if some of your relatives live in a country which blocks Whatsapp and other voice calling apps, like Russia or China).