Comments on: Digital Picture Frame

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:39:41 +0000

The laptop I used had two different power buttons–one for a hard power off, one for a controlled shutdown. Neither were easy to get to after I had it in the frame. It turned out that the hard power switch was just the right size to fit in an eletrical butt-joint connector ( think that is what they are called). So the connected is glued on the end of the switch, making it easier to reach in among the boards. Because it is a hard-boot, it scandisk checks the C: drive every time we turn it on, but it only takes a couple of minutes, and doesn’t require any input. I tried to find ways to disable the scandisk check, but couldn’t get any of them to work.

By: user

user — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:28:04 +0000

Hi There,

You did a great job ! I started building my DPF last Christmas, and it is almost finished. Like you, I also use Win98 and irfanview, this works great.

Did you manage to figure out how to switch off and on your DPF ? I really like to know !

Regards,

Stefan.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:32:20 +0000

b598650:
Because the batch file for IrfanView is in the Startup folder, the slideshow starts automatically. You see Windows start if you are watching, but the slideshow starts without any user interaction.

I would love to find something that would boot faster and display without the Windows startup overhead, but visitors to my home don’t care. They just see the images.

By: b598650

b598650 — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:38:45 +0000

I think this is a great idea! I cannot wait to build one myself. Your whole process seemed to be the best walltop design i have read about yet. My only question is this, i know you altered your boot-up display but after the display did the laptop go to windows or did it immediately begin your slide show. I would like to create mine to just begin showing pictures immediately after boot-up, however i am not big on the software and was wondering if you had any insight on the subject.

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:01:11 +0000

I recently started my own pictureframe project after getting inspiration from your pictureframe… sad thing is I managed to bust die ‘vga’ connector coming from the mother board to the display… this 20CM ‘long’ cable, i was told, will cost me 47 euros (that should be roughly the same in $) …so nut sure if i’ll continue the project with that particular laptop (anybody got a dead, free/cheap IBM 770X Thinkpad around?)… luckaly, i have a second old laptop to try again if all fails.

Anyway, thnx ewver so much for the inspiration!

Greets all the way from The Netherlands!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:54:42 +0000

Thanks for this info. You sound like my husband. Are you an engineer? I am going to send him this page and ask him to make a digital photo frame for me with our old laptop. We were going to give it to our son to play with (he’s 3), but I think he would rather have a PC, since he hasn’t exactly perfected his fine motor skills yet.

I am thinking about asking my husband to make our frame “tabletop” ready. Any ideas on how to get that to work? I suppose he could just straighten it out and mount it to the back of a table, but it wouldn’t look that great.