Slick DIY Wall Mounted Digital Photo Frame
Most DIY digital picture frame howtos people post on the net go the 'dismantle an old laptop' route. As this site notes, the scavenged laptop approach has a couple of drawbacks:All of them involved taking the laptop apart completely and generally rendering it useless for any other activity. The screens were also smaller than I wanted - equivalent to an 8"x12" photo, and varied considerably in contrast, brightness, and general image quality.
For my project, I wanted a desktop quality LCD screen of a size equivalent to an 11"x14" photograph. I also wanted professional quality matting and framing.
So, the author opted to use an old LCD monitor along with a hidden laptop. The trick is using two holes in the wall; an upper and a lower. The VGA and monitor power cable is fed through the upper hole and fished out through the lower hole, which is where the laptop sits, still accessible for maintenance and whatnot, but, in the author's case, hidden by a piano and usually controlled wirelessly.
Se also: previous post on DIY digital frames.
WiFi enabled digital picture frame on Amazon.com.
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1 Posted 2007-04-14 01:05:56 by Digital Picture Frame Expert
Nice idea, however, how many people are willing to spend so much time?
3 Posted 2007-07-10 14:04:03 by Big Dreams
Flat screens are getting cheaper all the time, and better digital frames are coming out at the same rate.
4 Posted 2007-11-27 14:31:44 by ChasT (chas@num1pirate.com)
So why go through the trouble of an old and tired notebook that will constantly need updating and rebooting. Take a look at these media drives. http://www.davismicro.com/class2.asp?id=small&anid=41&nid=155 I am using one with the hard drive from that old notebook and an extra monitor.
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