Difference between revisions of "DIY Digital Picture Frame"
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* Ratmandu is donating a Latitude C640 with no optical drive, keyboard, or RAM | * Ratmandu is donating a Latitude C640 with no optical drive, keyboard, or RAM | ||
** Purchased 128MB of RAM from ebay for ~$8 | ** Purchased 128MB of RAM from ebay for ~$8 | ||
− | ** | + | ** Switched stick I purchased for an extra 256MB stick that Strages had |
− | ** | + | ** Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age) |
− | ** | + | ** Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu |
− | ** | + | ** LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it. |
− | + | [[Image:LCD_Cable_1.jpg | 200px]] [[Image:LCD_Cable_2.jpg | 200px]] | |
=Soft Resources= | =Soft Resources= |
Revision as of 09:43, 20 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
- Switched stick I purchased for an extra 256MB stick that Strages had
- Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age)
- Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu
- LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it.
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 .