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Building the WallTop

Posted by timothy on from the beats-daisy-duke-posters dept.

mramsundar writes "Here is an interesting link that shows how to convert your laptop into something called as walltop. A number of these walltops, when connected, can host a slideshow that can show digitized images."

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  1. Very cool & mirror by winkydink · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is cool. The author is unclear as to whether or not the CPU fan is left in
    place (from the pictures, it appears to be left in place). If it is, then how is the walltop "dead quiet"? If not, how does he keep it cool?

    Mirror is located here.

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    1. Re:Very cool & mirror by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Informative

      In the comments lower down the author states:

      # Chris Says:
      June 18th, 2005 at 17:21

      Some Idiot: No the fan is still there. (see the pictures) It's just that running a slideshow doesn't demand that much cpu power and therefore the fan never starts. The other fact that helps to keep the system cool is that the mb is mounted in the lower end of the frame, so the air can circulate well.

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  2. Google Cache by Radres · · Score: 5, Informative

    here

  3. I think.... by wpiman · · Score: 2, Informative

    This would be a whole heck of a lot easier with a tablet PC. Fuitsu made some really thin ones that are just becoming obsolete right about now.....

  4. mini-itx by American+In+Berlin · · Score: 2, Informative

    There has been a story about a similar project on slashdot more than two years ago.

    Here is the original article:

    The mini-itx based pictureframe pc:
    http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/pictureframepc/

  5. MoviX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative


    MoviX can do this, 3 different distro's 10mb,25mb,50mb
    based on Isolinux bootloader and Mplayer

    its as simple as
    add images/movies > create iso > burn > reboot

    even compile it from windows
    networking, netbios good hardware support
    written in perl, i love it, no hard drive required

    could do with polishing at the edges, but it is open source and working