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Step 2Break it Down

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To create the appearance that the phone is making two outgoing calls simultaneously, it simply needs to ring while making an outgoing call. And by simply, I mean let's take this phone apart and bend it to our will through a series of hacks.

First, let's break down the things we'll have to change.

1. Sense when someone is around to answer
2. "Pick up" and "hang up" the phone while the receiver is still on the hook
3. Dial without pressing the buttons
4. Make the phone ring without getting a call

If we can do all this while still letting the phone be dialed and called as normal, so much the better.

Strangely, what I imagined to be the simplest part, making it ring, was the hardest to figure out...



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