Build Your Own LCD Picture Frame

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)."

Yeah..

[destiney]

Yeah I'm almost certain we all have a few unused LCD monitors lying around..

Right over there in the corner with my old 486's.

A bit OTT indeed :-)

[Space cowboy]

... a fiend of a friend offered them to us for a quid each.

Man, you're hard on your friends!

Simon.

Just think of the uses....

[aidanjpadden]

These could be cool - imagine the possiblities - you have one hard disk with the family photos on and one with the porn.

When the family come round show the nice xmas pictures of you and that jumper you didn't want then when they go a simple swap of disks and it'll be like the Playboy mansion....

At least it's got to be better than looking at fish all day right?

A solution in search of a problem?

[Jeff DeMaagd]

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.

Wireless, eh?

[Dark Lord Seth]

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?

Visa Commercial

[Jozer99]

James Earl Jones like voice:
Mini-ITX motherboard 150
Custom 3 inch deep fram 100
Penium II desktop 100
USB CD-ROM 30
USB Wireless Adapter 80
15 inch LCD 300
RadioShack Switch 7
Power Brick 60
100 Hours you should
have been at work
1 60000year job
Getting the same result for 827 as you would for a $300 digital picture frame: Priceless Fade to black

Re:Visa Commercial

[damiam]

Except it would be a Mastercard commercial.

The possibilities

[ecarlson]

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.

what photoshop?

[Janek Kozicki]

Before transferring your pictures to the frame, you may want to use a graphics program like Photoshop to resize all your pictures to the monitor's native resolution. That will save a little CPU power and a lot of hard drive space.

I don't know what photoshop is, but I know that the best program for task described above is a batch job running convert.

hey, I just checked that photoshop is not a linux program, why this guy is talking about non-linux programs?

Well, that does it

[idiot900]

The idea of being able to SSH into your picture frame makes D&D enthusiasts look good by comparison...

This has nothing on

[The Analog Kid]

Mr. Roger's Picture Picture.

Re:Networked Home Appliance

[travisd]

Two words: Touch. Screen.