![]() Most of the parts use 1/4 inch material - the bases need a little more mass to them, so they use 1/2 inch. Just use your preferred cutting tools to make these shapes. If you don't have a CNC machine at your house, don't worry! It's really easy to cut everything out using more traditional tools. If you happen to have a CNC too, here are links to the files in Easel so you can cut them out just as easily: Since I was using recycled fan blades, it was a little tricky getting everything lined up, but it made for the perfect material to get all the parts I needed. Leather (or something similar for hinges).Wood Finish or paint (whatever you like best).String or Twine (just a couple of inches).Heavy Gauge Wire (just a couple of inches).You want a little slop in the fitment of these pieces to make construction, and deconstruction a little easier. In fact, plywood MIGHT make your life a little easier because it always tends to be just a little thinner than the claimed dimension. You don't have to use hardwood though, plywood would work fine. I used thin pieces of walnut that used to be ceiling fan blades from an old project I did a few years ago. This project uses mostly 1/4-inch material. After you've finished looking over this project here, if you still want more information you should definitely go check out the plans on my website - available here. It includes step-by-step instructions with photos, color-coded diagrams, measurements, a cut list, and other considerations that you might want to take into account when building these for yourself. I have an even more detailed set of plans available on my website. Look it over, check out the links, and decided what's best for you. My second request is to reconsider their decision to delay or scrap the project and give the people what they want – Google Voice Desktop.Here is all of the stuff that you need to get the job done, and a few extra things that might make the job easier. My first request to Google is not to block me from using the application. You can use Skype and buy a Skype-In number for €50/year to duplicate much of this functionality, but that’s just a ridiculous price to pay for a soft phone in our opinion. It gives people an extra way to use Google Voice and is particularly useful when traveling overseas, where Google Voice doesn’t yet work. We continue to urge Google to release this software. I also left in the random Skype call I received in the middle of the video that I thought was Google Voice just because I was thoroughly confused for a minute. The test calls in the video above were done without a headset, I just used the internal microphone and speakers. We don’t know if this is the current internal release or something more dated. The Desktop application was also automatically added as one of my phones in the Google Voice for the browser. This is mostly still branded Gizmo5, although the sign up screen says “Gizmo5 by Google,” and it is fully integrated with the Google Voice service, address book, etc. We’ve taken a video (above) showing what the application looks like, showing both outbound and inbound calls. We didn’t get those, but we did get something better – the actual application. We’ve asked our sources for screen shots of what Google Voice Desktop looks like. ![]() But then last month we learned that Google was delaying any launch of the product, and may be scrapping it entirely, because Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin don’t want Google to be in the business of creating software outside of the browser. A few months later we heard that Google was dogfooding Google Voice Desktop internally. When Google acquired Skype competitor Gizmo5 in November 2009 it wasn’t much of a stretch to anticipate a soft phone application for Google Voice to be coming soon.
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