BYO Toy Phone?

[JackTucky]

Is it possible to hook up two real phones with a "crossover" cable and a power source (preferable safe and low power), so that kids could pick one phone up and talk to the other phone?

Stage 2, make them ring?

Art

[cholin]

Yes it's possible.  Check out www.howstuffworks.com and look for "How telephones work".  A little into it, it shows you that all you need to do is splice the wire and add a 9v battery in there....tada

[JackTucky]

Thanks!

I remember they had stuff like this in elementary school, in the 70's

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/telephone5.htm

[daywane]

man that brings back memories. I grew up with party lines.
My girlfriends parents were the other party. We (my old girlfriend and I)
figured out that we could pick up the phones and wait out the dial tone and talk all night and no one knew. The phones never rang. we did this all through high school. ( we invented phone sex) 

[cholin]

Haha I knew I saw this somewhere   Good luck with it.  I wouldnt mind a nice intercom system now that I think about it......

Colin goes and gets a wire stripper, battery and resistor

[missioncontrol]

you couls allways use two cans and a peice of string