Please, digital picture frame are now available for less than the price of the glue used in this project. These kind of mods are everyday a little further from ‘hacking’ and closer to ‘being a digital redneck’.

Posted at 8:06 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by Gaspard de Coligny

It’s cool to turn a digital picture frame in to a netbook not the other way around.

I agree what Gaspard de Coligny says.

Posted at 8:15 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by Terreurbv

Aye-aye. What is this stuff doing in my hack-a-day?

Posted at 8:37 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by anon

Oh /please/… the low-end digital picture frames are nearly worse than useless.

With something like the above, you can use it as a wall-mounted tablet, play music or video on it.. there are all sorts of options.

Just because it’s /cheaper/ to go with a commercial product, doesn’t mean it’s always /better/.

Posted at 9:08 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by herbicide

I’m working up an Asus 4G Surf into a frame — running Ubuntu I’ll hopefully stream music and video thru the wireless and have updated news from RSS feeds.

Posted at 9:13 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by Nuckinfutz

The quality of most digital picture frames is deplorable, and there’s nothing else you can do with them.

I would have gone with an Chumby + larger panel, but this is still a hack.

Quit hatin’

Posted at 9:15 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by Chris Pearson

looking at the pictures, there appears to be lots of sheet metal inside of the pc. It’s not evident that this shielding made it into the hacked picture frame.

consider, the manufacturers of consumer grade electronics are *very* cost conscious. This means that metal shields and panels are in the product for a reason.

perhaps this project is better titled: “combination eepc picture frame and broadband rf jammer”

Posted at 10:28 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by ac7zl

I have converted a couple of 800×600 Dell laptops to digital photo frames. There are some advantages to this approach over buying a new digital photo frame.

- recycles an obsolete but still functional laptop
- bigger image than photo frames
- networkable (and uses old WiFi PCMCIA cards!)
- customizable – add clock, captions, control transitions

Posted at 10:57 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by Peter

Is there any website that has a compilation of good software to use for a pc picture frame? I am looking for something like a clock, full screen weather, good media player (large buttons, album art, etc.) maybe a custom UI.

Posted at 11:31 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by M0535

@m0535
Any of the “widgets” type things should give you what most of what you want;
Yahoo! Widgets (for Windows)
Google Desktop (for Windows)
Konfabulator (for UN*X + XWindows)
Vista (might be a bit heavy) has them built in.

It’s fairly easy to write new or modify widgets if there’s not one that does exactly what you need.

Posted at 11:59 am on Apr 15th, 2009 by TJ

not a good idea during economic crisis

Posted at 3:41 pm on Apr 15th, 2009 by therian

I was thinking about doing something like this. What appealed to me was the networking side of it. You could create a shared folder on the Eee PC and just connect another laptop to it, send photos (wirelessly), and it would show them on screen. Removes the need for a memory card all together!

Also, if it were me, I would have added touch screen capability, seeing as the kits for this model are going so cheap on eBay.

Posted at 4:33 pm on Apr 15th, 2009 by Steve

My eee pc blew up =(

Posted at 5:59 pm on Apr 15th, 2009 by yurijm

@ac7zl
There’s actually very little sheet metal in an eeepc. Mostly just the bottom of the keyboard.

Posted at 7:21 pm on Apr 15th, 2009 by barry99705

If you were to add the touchscreen kit to this you could have a nice little counter-top PC.

Posted at 8:41 pm on Apr 15th, 2009 by sarsface

what a waste of eepc :<

Posted at 4:15 am on Apr 16th, 2009 by cxcxzcv

barry99705:

Perhaps you should take another look at

http://awooga.nl/g/image/35403-2/DSC01757.JPG

I see shielding *all over* the place! In addition to a large sheet metal shield at the lower right of the photo, it is evident that that the interior of the entire housing either contains a metal liner, or is coated with conductive material of some kind. (mid and upper-left of photo.)

why do *you* think the manufacturers put that in there? I stand by my original comments.

barry99705 said:

>There’s actually very little sheet metal in an
>eeepc. Mostly just the bottom of the keyboard.

Posted at 8:56 am on Apr 16th, 2009 by ac7zl

Uh yeah, that whole supercritical sheet metal issue aside (?) (that case ain’t no farady cage kids)

this does seem like overkill unless you stretch the meaning of the term “digital photo frame” or severely under-use the hardware.

It’s far better than the thing not being used at all I’ll agree.
(personally i would have gone robot, but that’s me)

Posted at 9:35 am on Apr 16th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

That’s no ordinary sheet metal. Its aluminum. Aluminum doesn’t hold heat very well, so i’m guessing its main use is to not pass the heat to your lap, of which past years have complained so frequently of killing sperm, eggs, etc.
the damn eee is cheap plastic. It would probably melt if not for that flimsy aluminum.

Posted at 11:28 am on Apr 16th, 2009 by MarkyB86

can you tell me what software used on the picture frame? slideshow with weather and clock

Posted at 12:34 pm on Apr 16th, 2009 by ys

“they are available pretty cheap”

Where? And define cheap?

Posted at 3:58 pm on Apr 16th, 2009 by VonSkippy

@ vonskippy

I know a shop nearby that is selling the Linux 701 for under $300 AU

Posted at 5:44 pm on Apr 16th, 2009 by Steve

>>Oh /please/… the low-end digital picture frames are nearly worse than useless.

Thay DO display pictures… My loo too is next to useless, except for taking a dump.

Doing 1 thing well is quite a good idea even after 15 year of “multitasking” brainwashing.

And yes, at least in developped countries, digital picture frames have nice screens.

Posted at 6:45 pm on Apr 17th, 2009 by Gaspard de Coligny

I would keep the eeepc and buy a digital lcd frame that has touch screen. But I guess this would be a nice project for a hobbyist with money to waste.

Posted at 9:34 am on Sep 26th, 2009 by Digital LCD Frame