Difference between revisions of "DIY Digital Picture Frame"
From Makers Local 256
(→Physical Resources: added idea to install OS on a different hardware platform) |
(→Soft Resources: added update to project) |
||
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
*** Dell D Series drives will not fit C series laptops | *** Dell D Series drives will not fit C series laptops | ||
** Maybe install OS on a drive in a different computer, then transfer over to C640? | ** Maybe install OS on a drive in a different computer, then transfer over to C640? | ||
| + | |||
| + | =Soft Resources= | ||
| + | * Have installe Ubuntu via PXE boot | ||
| + | * Installed ubuntu-desktop | ||
| + | * Installed flickrfs | ||
| + | * created flickr account | ||
| + | ** flickerfs does not need a username/password combination to access flickr, it uses some kind of authentication key. It works, I don't need to understand it. | ||
| + | * installed feh at brimstone's recommendation, some sort of screen saver | ||
| + | ** command: feh -F -D 1 . | ||
| + | *** This commend starts a slideshow through the directory | ||
| + | *** brimstome recommended rsyncing the directory to somewhere as it appeared to be pulling the images from flickr each time rather than storing them locally? | ||
| + | *** flickerfs allows you to create a directory in the public tags directory to pull in photos of that tag. it uses the directory name as the tag | ||
Revision as of 22:00, 18 November 2008
Online Reources
Physical Resources
- Ratmandu is donating a Latitude C640 with no optical drive, keyboard, or RAM
- Purchased 128MB of RAM from ebay for ~$8
- Ratmandu has a 1.3GB drive we can throw in it.
- Hopefully can boot up with USB CD-ROM drive and Keyboard, Worth $8 to find out.
- Doesn't look like it will
- Dell D Series drives will not fit C series laptops
- Maybe install OS on a drive in a different computer, then transfer over to C640?
Soft Resources
- Have installe Ubuntu via PXE boot
- Installed ubuntu-desktop
- Installed flickrfs
- created flickr account
- flickerfs does not need a username/password combination to access flickr, it uses some kind of authentication key. It works, I don't need to understand it.
- installed feh at brimstone's recommendation, some sort of screen saver
- command: feh -F -D 1 .
- This commend starts a slideshow through the directory
- brimstome recommended rsyncing the directory to somewhere as it appeared to be pulling the images from flickr each time rather than storing them locally?
- flickerfs allows you to create a directory in the public tags directory to pull in photos of that tag. it uses the directory name as the tag
- command: feh -F -D 1 .
