Difference between revisions of "DIY Digital Picture Frame"

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** Salvaged a 20GB hard drive from the ancient Latitude that ran Win95 (relatively huge, considering the age)
 
** 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
 
** Was able to PXE boot and install Ubuntu
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** According to [http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/edwin/laptops/Dell/LATITUDE/C540-640.PDF This Document] the Docking Station pin for Turning on the laptop is pin #17, and one of the Ground pins is pin #10.  Should be able to put an external switch across these two to make the unit power up.
 
** LCD Ribbon cable will not reach motherboard, will need to purchase an extension for it.
 
** 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]]
 
[[Image:LCD_Cable_1.jpg | 200px]] [[Image:LCD_Cable_2.jpg | 200px]]

Revision as of 16:50, 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
    • According to This Document the Docking Station pin for Turning on the laptop is pin #17, and one of the Ground pins is pin #10. Should be able to put an external switch across these two to make the unit power up.
    • 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