An easy alternative to insanely overpriced digital picture frames.
Call me a cheapskate, but $400 for a digital picture frame when a complete laptop costs $600? I won’t stand for it!
Call me lazy, but a week of evenings with a Torx screwdriver, a razor blade, and an old laptop, trying to get a memory-resident Linux install to boot? I have better stuff to do!
I’ve wanted a digital photo frame for a long time. Unfortunately, my cheapness and laziness have stood in the way. Paying $400 for an LCD and some driver hardware (when you can get a DVD player for $85) just seems wrong. And hacking apart an old laptop is the kind of project that invariably gets put off indefinitely.
Until recently, I figured I’d end up waiting for the commercial ones to get cheap, but then I stumbled on a solution that satisfied the lazy
cheapskate in me. Here’s my $130, 15-minute solution.
Assemble
The fast version:
Plug everything together, and stick it all into a
picture frame.
1. Unpack everything ( 1 minute). 2. Plug the audio and video cables together. The yellow cable is the video cable, and is the most important. Plug the red and white ones together if you want to listen to MP3s or hear the sound of video ( 1 minute). 3. Copy some photos from your PC to the memory card, plug it in, and turn everything on to make
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