June 28, 2004
Laptop Deconstruction...eventually Digital Picture Frame
I've been thinking about this project for more than year, really since the keyboard on an old laptop failed - Compaq Presario 1220. At that time very few sites were dedicated to constructing a digital picture frame. Now a search of Google for - digital picture frame - results in many interesting sites.
I had an idea of what I wanted the finished project should look like...and after the Google search found an actual product out there that looks very similar to what I had envisioned.
The nicest is Wallflower, but at $859 it is a little more than what I can afford for a project. Instead I'll use an old laptop with a slightly smaller screen and less impressive specs to achieve a similar function.
I don't plan on running video or audio with the frame, but that would be possible, and content could potentially be pushed to it if I would buy one of these cool toys from Linksys in order to provide FTP support.
See the updated Projects page for the first step in the transformation from laptop grave to digital frame.
Posted by Jeremy Showalter at June 28, 2004 04:29 PM