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What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames?
First time accepted submitter icepick3000 writes "There are probably many digital photoframes unused these days laying around. Mine is from the first generation meaning you can only insert a compact flash card and display photos. Newer models nowadays can display weather, news, and stocks. Anyone have some good idea's how to give these old frames a second life? I have been thinking about compact flash cards that support wifi... maybe someone has a better idea?"
Um, use them as designed? Why do you need all of those extra features for just a photo frame?
If you're still on the upgrade treadmill, give the old frames to someone who will use it.
1) Download image http://i.imgur.com/Oq3OW.jpg
2) Place image on digital photoframe.
3) Place digital photoframe outside front door.
4) ???
5) Peace and solitude.
A giant wall of porn to great you when you, er, come home. /burn karma, burn!
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Pray your old photo frame supports SD cards
Use the GPIO on your Arduino/RaspberryPi/Anything network connectable really to emulate an SD card with a filesystem and produce the images to display stock prices/weather/intertubes content on your legacy photo frame.
Take headshots of your significant other looking very impatient, occasionally slightly moving to create the appearance of a live image. Glue a black plastic sequin to the middle of the top frame so it looks like a built in camera. Set the frame in portrait orientation and have it display the images in quick succession on your desk. Then whenever someone you don't want to talk to approaches, start apologizing to the frame, then turn it around for them to see, and whisper this: "I've got my wife on the telescreen... I have to take this call..." Bonus points if it is your wife who you avoid talking to in this way.
Use them as a video output device.
Many picture frames can be hacked and used as displays. Cheap and very handy for devices lacking traditional a traditional video out.
Some smart people have been working on this over at the Doozan forum.
Do you want a bigger house? Own your own business? Climb Kilimanjaro? Put frames that show those goals into it and let the photo frames remind you. This will make a powerful subconscious urge for you to achieve your goals.
Do you want to learn rote things, such as another language? How about showing word - translation flashcards for the language, or whatever information you need to know. Put them on your desk and occasionally glance over and try to guess which translation will follow the shown word. (Or the times tables, or whatever info you want.)
How about installing quick-reference sheets for work? (I personally have an ASCII chart hanging in my office since I can never remember the codes.) You can have a "perl quick reference sheet", "perl debugger sheet", "Cisco router quick reference sheet" and so on. Most of the frames have buttons to stop or flip through the images - find the reference sheet you need and freeze it.
The photo frame can hold all sorts of static information within limitations.
e.g on openwrt
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=34133
Where are the nerds today?
You seem very angry about some guy who just wants to tinker with some old piece of electronics.
It's just that it's so very lame to ask a question that is essentially "what can I do with an LCD panel?". If you don't know already, you probably will have no use for the answer.
It's also a bit absurd to think a photo frame it broken because it doesn't display something besides photos you can get more easily and with better detail on your smart phone.
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Put recipes on it, store in the kitchen.
I tried that but it was pretty hard to make a soufflé before the five seconds were up.
Scan manuals you use frequently.
I had to wait an hour for the instruction manual for my mixer to come up.
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I think you mean second generation photo frames. The first generation had superior DPI, didn't use any power and was a lot cheaper. It was also often made of wood.
Only dumb birds land downwind.
which I upgrade by taking the back off and putting a new photo in it.... .. maybe something to experiment is CF to SD adapter and see if you can push new images on the fly to a eye fi card?
back on topic
I'm pretty sure you can use the Dead Badger Tutorial also on cats.
This is Slashdot 2012, home of console gamers and modding everything as troll and flamebait that people don't agree with.
The real hackers moved on. They didn't tell me where. Hackers and my parents... is it so hard to leave a forwarding address?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
We seem to get a "What to do with this useless crap I bought 2 years ago?" question every month.
Don't buy it in the first place!
If you think you want to buy something, write it down in a "could_buy.txt" list.
Take a look one month later, and more often than not, you'll ask yourself why you even considered it.
Anyone have some good idea's how to give these old frames a second life?
Display a different grammar rule every day. You can start with correct use of apostrophes.
Heck, every time something about evolution pops up, there's a ton of people here saying the earth is 6000 years old, evolution is false, etc. I don't remember that happening here in the 90s.
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If you don't then there will be changes you don't like and little that caters to your interest. You can't blame slashdot changing to cater for new users interests if you don't find slashdot interesting any more and don't contribute yourself.
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what if you put some favourite pix on a compact flash card, load it in there... and use the thing to look at the photos or display them to visitors ?
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
Glue 4 of them together in a box shape, solder all the usb sockets together and upload a totally white pic. Now you have a unique lamp.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Help the new owner load some pics of the grandkids from their kids' Facebook page.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Gosh, what's not legal in Amsterdam? Have these people no standards at all?
I used three cheap-o digital photo frames (that my wife and I received over the years as gifts) for the displays in a jet cockpit set piece for a short film I made. They worked great - the slideshow feature worked well to display updating info on the tactical display, etc. The main display was an old IBM 17" LCD monitor I had in my closet. They weren't used to cure science or find alien intelligence, but they looked great in the scene.
is there even anyone there with insight?