7/31/2023 0 Comments Picframe for computer![]() ![]() If you want a large one to hang on the wall in a living room or over a fireplace, this project is ideal! If you want a small photo frame for your desk then I would suggest buying one. It's not thin or small like a commercial photo frame.Hacking, tinkering, whatever you want to call it. You need to enjoy doing this kind of stuff. You are creating a conversation piece! Your family and friends won't believe you were able to build one yourself (and may be slightly afraid of you at future holiday gatherings).Want the ability to show the weather on your frame when you push a button on the side? Implement it! The options are endless if you have the time to tinker with it. You can add your own "features" over time.With my project the photos are stored on a completely different system and are accessed via my home wireless network. So much for hanging it above your fireplace. ![]() You need to physically "touch" the frame to update the pictures.I don't have these worries because photos are located on a central file server with plenty of storage. You end up never updating your frame because it is a pain. This means you have to worry about the number of photos that you put on your frame. Most cameras today take very high resolution photos (resulting in very large file sizes). Most commercial frames available today have very limited storage.I don't have the money lying around, but I do have a laptop with a dead hard drive and keyboard, but perfectly good display.That said, a frame with this kind of functionality and flexibility could easily run about $300 - $450. You can buy a digital picture frame of this size for around $120 today. You are probably asking yourself, is it worth the effort to do this? Hopefully the detail in this area this will save you time in the end. I spent many days writing scripts and tweaking the 3rd party software to get it all working just right. I just want to point that out because many of the existing frames on are more hardware than software focused. The complexity comes in the software used to control it all. It may surprise you to hear that this is actually more of a software project than a hardware one (in my mind anyway).īecause all laptops are different and you probably won't have the exact model I'm using, the hardware section will be higher level guidance that should apply to most build scenarios. This is a lengthy Instructable that I’ve been meaning to put together for quite some time. Otherwise I apologize for wasting your time but appreciate the fact that you’ve read this far! If that’s the case, please use this time to check out my other Instructables! So if you’re interested and agree that these are fairly unique features from other digital picture frames found here, read on. The kids really get a kick out of watching it throughout the day.ĭepending on your BIOS, the laptop can be set to automatically shutdown at night and turn back on in the morning I change ours to show the Santa NORAD tracker from NASA every Christmas Eve. can be changed remotely from the central file share. We used it to decide how to get the kids dressed for the day!īasic operation of the frame, including displaying websites, online photo slideshows, etc. I have it load and display the weather first thing in the morning and around dinner time every night. It can load a custom designed weather page at given times during the day. For example, during Christmas I load a library of past and present Christmas related photos, during Birthday Parties I load photos of past parties and “Happy Birthday” banners to be shown, etc.Īdding photos takes seconds and again, you don’t need to touch the frame You can have different “libraries” of photos and change between them from your central file share. The actual frame never needs to be touched unless powering on (you can even shut down, reboot, and change basic functionality remotely) If for any reason the file share cannot be found, a “default” set of photos will be loaded into memory from the CD Photos are loaded from a centralized file share (connected over Wi-Fi) There is no hard drive and therefore operation is completely silent after initial boot These are the features that make my frame fairly unique from other DIY frames I have seen: Me as I explain why this one is different. Ok, so I know there are tons of digital picture frame Instructables already out there. ![]()
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