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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?
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...:-)