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Build Your Own LCD Picture Frame

Posted by michael on from the when-thumbtacks-just-aren't-good-enough dept.

mbrain writes "PopSci is running a really good how-to story that shows how to build your own LCD picture frame. Since you are building it yourself, you can make it any size you like, using an off-the-shelf LCD monitor as the display. The frame as described uses a cheap motherboard, power supply and HD and runs Linux. It can hold thousands of photos. A little pricey, but still a cool project (especially if you have some of the parts laying around)."

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  1. Pictureframe PC by Xeed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is very similar to a Mini-ITX project I saw a while ago.

    The main difference is, the Mini-ITX page shows you how everything is layed out inside the picture frame.

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  2. A similar Project using an old PowerBook Duo... by beerits · · Score: 5, Interesting

    can be found here.

  3. A bit OTT indeed :-) by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... a fiend of a friend offered them to us for a quid each.


    Man, you're hard on your friends!

    Simon.
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    Physicists get Hadrons!
  4. A solution in search of a problem? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, there's nothing like converting a low-res display and computer hardware to make a high-tech $300+ version of a $10 picture frame.

  5. Wireless, eh? by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Funny
    With the basic functionality up and running, you can start to play around with expansion options. My first project was to give the frame a wireless connection so I could transfer new pictures without taking it off the wall.

    Wargoatseing, anyone?

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  6. Just go out and buy one... by answerer · · Score: 5, Informative

    At the prices + time you're looking at with a project like this, you might as well go out and buy one.

    http://www.artpix.com/
    http://www.pacificdigital.com/products/memoryframe .asp

    This project is only economical if you have old laptops sitting around. If that's the case, you probably won't have enough CPU/RAM to install the latest version of debian. For me, I don't even have a hard drive.

    Anyone found a lite solution to picture frame software? Here are two solutions that I've found so far:

    PictureFrame Linux
    - Too heavy on system requirements
    DOS Solution

  7. Yawn - Done way back. by Graemee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Check these links for a Duo (Laptop) mod to a picture frame. I remember this site as the first I saw. I have an old 486 and a 64MB compaq flash just waiting for a conversion.

    http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/duodigitalfram e
    http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/728

    Duo Digital Frame by James Roos

  8. The possibilities by ecarlson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Put in a tiny camera and have a portrait image with eyes that follow the viewer. That would be pretty creepy. Or add some speakers, and and have it "jump out and scream" at the viewer when they get close, like those trick images on the web.

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