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
** Ratmandu has a 1.3GB drive we can throw in it.
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** Switched stick I purchased for an extra 256MB stick that Strages had
** Hopefully can boot up with USB CD-ROM drive and Keyboard, Worth $8 to find out.
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** Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age)
*** Doesn't look like it will
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** Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu
*** Dell D Series drives will not fit C series laptops
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** LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it.
** Maybe install OS on a drive in a different computer, then transfer over to C640?
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[[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.

LCD Cable 1.jpg LCD Cable 2.jpg

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