What is the project about?
My project consists of applying Arduino technology to old rotary dial telephones, the "bi-grey" ones present in our homes before the advent of digital telephony. Through Arduino it is possible to make the phone do many things. I chose to have him recite Gianni Rodari's Fables on the Telephone and other fables.

Where did you get the idea?
The idea was born from reading the book Favole al Telefono by Gianni Rodari which, in the Einaudi Ragazzi edition, has a selector disc on the cover. My interest in technology and programming and the curiosity to understand how to make the digital world of Arduino and the analogue world of the old telephone communicate did the rest.

How are creativity, technology, ingenuity and innovation combined in your project?
Creativity manifests itself already in the conceptual phase, in imagining a new use for a device such as a rotary telephone. This is combined with ingenuity in applying modern technology to restore its functioning in a new context. Innovation lies in evolving the original idea of ​​an author of children's literature.