{"id":13027,"date":"2017-01-18T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2017-01-18T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:51:19","slug":"zerophone-pi-powered-diy-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/zerophone-pi-powered-diy-mobile-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"ZeroPhone: A Pi-powered DIY mobile phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/diy-gsm-cellphone-using-arduino\/\">Arduino-powered cellphones<\/a> before.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/CRImier\">Arsenijs<\/a>\u00a0introduces <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-smartphone\" target=\"_blank\">ZeroPhone<\/a><\/strong>&#8211; a Raspberry Pi Zero powered DIY mobile phone that costs less than $50 in parts. It is mostly open-source and linux-powered. It supports voice calls, texting, and basic apps like alarm clock, calendar, calculator, web browser, music player, etc.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13028\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13028\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13028\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg\" alt=\"Zerophone: A Pi-powered DIY mobile phone\" width=\"800\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone.jpg 800w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone-481x650.jpg 481w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zerophone-759x1024.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zerophone: A Pi-powered DIY mobile phone<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Features:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Calling and SMS<\/strong> &#8211; this is the first functionality to be implemented, and will be considered crucial in the development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All the basic apps<\/strong> &#8211; alarm clock, calendar, calculator, phonebook, file browser, web browser and music player.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your own apps<\/strong> &#8211; SDK will be provided and it will be developer-friendly. The laand I&#8217;ll personally expect, if not at least aid with, social media apps &#8211; for a good start, since those are the apps people spend most time in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Running Linux software<\/strong> &#8211; since it&#8217;s a computer after all, you can run ARM compatible (thus, almost all) Linux programs on it. A Raspberry Pi can give you a desktop with a monitor, keyboard and a mouse? This phone can, too! You like to use SSH, like me? It&#8217;s going to be available!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pentesting <\/strong>&#8211; lots of fun, a nice hobby for many and well-paying work for some, this phone can do it too.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Security and privacy<\/strong> &#8211; one of the features that isn&#8217;t typically provided but can mean anything from something simply bringing peace of mind to a matter of life and death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Experimenting<\/strong> &#8211; there&#8217;ll be a sensor port available for connecting anything you think could add useful functions to your phone. Want to wake up when the sun rises? Add a light sensor! An additional display for notifications? Easy, connect and write code! A Geiger counter? Can have it, too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen Arduino-powered cellphones before.\u00a0Arsenijs\u00a0introduces ZeroPhone&#8211; a Raspberry Pi Zero powered DIY mobile phone that costs less than $50 in parts. It is mostly open-source and linux-powered. It supports voice calls, texting, and basic apps like alarm clock, calendar, calculator, web browser, music player, etc. Features: Calling and SMS &#8211; this is the first functionality to be implemented, and will be considered crucial in the development. All the basic apps &#8211; alarm clock, calendar, calculator, phonebook, file browser, web browser and music player. Your own apps &#8211; SDK will be provided and it will be developer-friendly. The laand I&#8217;ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[602,1526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raspberry-pie","category-raspberrypiprojects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions\/13029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}