DIY Digital Picture Frame

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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