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Old PowerBook + Hot Glue = Cheap Digital Picture Frame
option8 writes "Have an old laptop gathering dust? Here's another fun hack from Applefritter - this time utilizing an old Mac laptop (a Duo 280) but could be applied to pretty much anything with an LCD, and turning the guts into a cheap, flexible digital picture frame. Now, off to the flea market to pick up one of them cheap Duos I keep seeing..." As the author points out, this isn't a new idea -- but it's a great step-by-step.
Hot PowerBook + Old Glue = expensive scrap metal on the floor
Apple released a whole bunch of PowerBooks with Motorola 680x0 chips, way before anyone ever heard of the PowerPC line.
For instance: http://www.ou.nl/open/psl/pb100/#spec
~jeff
Well, that does it for me. I'm definately going to switch now!
Not while this story is on the front page of Slashdot, they won't.
- In Capitalist America, law violates YOU!
Introducing a new picture frame that's:
-With a built in Fan so you can hear just how hot your picutres are!
-Visible only from certain angles to keep prying eyes from seeing your precious photos
-Capable of being infected by a virus or taken out by a trojan. Imagine all the fun and games when some hacker draws a swastika on grandma's forehead
-Ugly to prop up while showing your eternal love for unnecessary keyboards
-Runs for almost 2 hours without plugging in!!!
-Consumes just 15 watts per hour so it only costs you about $50 a year in power costs
And if you act now we'll throw in a free screen saver to prevent pesky burn in.
Ummm really, is this progress?
Damn...I completely forgot to mail him a card!
why spend your time posting on slashdot when you could be building shelters for the homeless in Peru?
If i wanted to see 3D screensavers on my wall, I'd do what everyone else does, and take a hit of acid.
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
erm, and just think about having your networked picture frame 0wned and pointing to goatse...:-)
...of recycled obsolete apple laptops....