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How much should you charge for a photograph?DIY Digital Picture Frames
Photo frames are an easy way to add some gusto to your images. The future of this particular business, of course, is digital photography frames. You just upload some of your favourite photos to the frame, and then the frame cycles through the photos for you. If the frame is cleverly enough disguised and lit, it looks like a perfectly normal frame, with the only difference that the photo changes before your very eyes!
They make for great gifts, and can look pretty damn smart in various installations too. But sadly, they’re often quite expensive. Understandably, you might wish to try and make your own. I decided to start researching the topic, and was surprised to find the Laptop to Digital Picture Frame page on Likelysoft. It’s got over a hundred projects explaining how you can convert your old laptop into a gorgeous photo frame. The articles cover software, how to build the frame itself, and presentation opportunities.
With the weather being so damn lousy at the moment (hey, I live in the UK, I should be used to it by now, right?), it makes sense to have a nice little home DIY project. So dig out your old laptop and get crackin’! :)
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After inheriting an old laptop I made one of these things a few weeks ago… It only took about four hours and it looks great! My mom loves it.
I’ve got a very incomplete set of pictures at http://wiki.wolever.net/picture_frame if anyone is interested.
I’d also be more than happy to offer my help to anyone thinking of building one — just drop me an e-mail.
After reading this post and many others on the net, I did a laptop-to digital-picture-frame project using my wifes broken Vaio Laptop. I first repaired her laptop and then I converted it into a frame. It’s based on XP since it already had XP installed. Uses Slickr and wifi so that updating photos is done entirely on the internet. Fun project and didn’t cost me much.
How I Converted Laptop into Digital Picture Frame:
http://brentevans.blogspot.com/2007/05/converting-old-laptop-into-digita...
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