It took us almost a decade to get to the moon, and dialling the phone was a lazy affair which ... An Atmega328 was then used to translate the rotary dial mechanics into something more usable ...

is that rapid numeric keying is not what this rotary dial numpad keyboard is all about. In fact, it’s actually an April Fool’s prank [Squidgeefish] played on a retro-phone-obsessed coworker ...