The $11 LCD Photo Frame?
Make group pool Flickr member "tv" posted a couple photos of a the $11 Mattel JuiceBox modified in to a photo frame. He says "I'm working on an LCD frame hacked out of a Mattel JuiceBox ($11 at Wal-mart). The 'Box runs uclinux and accepts MMC cards". Wow, this might be the way we can all have low-cost photo frames.
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Mar 19, 2005 12:53 AM
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Now to make it go fetch photos or accept incoming deliveries (like what Ceiva's frame does) and I'll be building one.
Seems like the linux part makes it possible: Ceiva's frames phone home for their pictures, but I think something that connects directly to the Internets would even cooler.
Hi! "tv" here. (And I'm a she.) I don't hook the frame up to the Interweb, I just use some cheapy Canon 8 MB cards to dump images on it. The pics make it look really blue, it actually looks good in real life. I really did get them at Wal-mart for $11 at the end of February. They also had the MP3 / MMC carts for $15. Ebay seems to have them in the $20 - $30 range.
Version 2.0 is in the works, I'll "how-to" soon!
Posted by: tvincent@cinci.rr.com on March 21, 2005 at 10:55 AM
najnad, if your laptop screen has an LVDS connector, you should be able to hook it to a, say, mini-itx motherboard with an LVDS connector.
I recently shredded my dead Powerbook and set its parts aside for a 15.2" picture frame project, and it has an LVDS connector.
Good luck!
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