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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 johndierks · · Score: 4, Interesting
      I prefer my solution more. It's not quite as elegant, but it was a lot cheaper, easier, and has it's own elegant geek flair.

      I used to have a site where anyone could upload any image to it from the internet. It ran for 2 years before I moved.

      http://www.cowshark.com/artwall/artwall.jpg

      Check out the last few pictures I had. http://www.cowshark.com/artwall/current.html

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

    here

  3. um by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think i'd rather keep my several thousand dollar peice of hardware fully functional and portable, thank you. PLus this requires more than one laptop? I'd rahter either sell my old laptop or hook it up into some kind of cluster.

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  4. beats-daisy-duke-posters dept. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    no-it-doesn't dept.

  5. My slightly easier idea by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always wanted to take my old laptop and set it on a desk and have it display family photos and stuff like that. I figured I could just tell people that it is a really cool picture frame I bought that looks like a laptop.

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  6. Shouldn't it be called a by RayDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Wall Side?"

    After all its not on the top...

    *grin*

    Raydude

  7. What I'm doing. by madaxe42 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm actually doing something not dissimilar to this at the moment - in my hallway I have two 1960s Libertucci pieces of art - they're about 1" thick, and made of different layers of cardboard cut out in interesting shapes with space between them - I have three knackered old Toshibas, which I'm making into a three layered display to go on the wall - the back one will keep the backlight - they're running off a single PSU, and run gentoo off CF cards, booting off a network image on my server, so I'm just using 32M CF cards... At the moment, I've got all the hardware working, but have yet to mount them in a frame. Will put pictures somewhere once I'm done!