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anyone know of a good digital picture frame?
shmokes:
I highly recommend building one. The one I made is SOOOO nice. 1000x more classy than pretty much anything you can buy. And, as mentioned, it uses Slickr so my in-laws don't even do anything to it aside from plug it in and turn it on. They live in Idaho and we live in Florida, but whenever we want we just upload pictures to a Flickr account we made for it, and the frame automatically pulls them down (over built-in WiFi) and displays them. This means that when my wife's parents get home from work their picture frame is displaying brand new pictures of their grand daughter that they've never seen before. Really cool.
There's a thread somewhere here with pictures of it. It was lots of fun to build. The secret is this fantastic website called americanframe.com. They will make custom-frames and mats dirt-cheap. IIRC the frame and mat for my project was like $25 total.
It may not be the most economical route if you're starting with nothing, but lots of people have old, unused laptops laying around somewhere. Put that thing to use! That's what I did, so I ended up with a 15", very high-res digital picture frame that can be updated from anywhere in the world over the internet, for about $25 and a little elbow grease. Not a bad deal.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 11, 2007, 10:42:59 am --- They live in Idaho and we live in Florida, but whenever we want we just upload pictures to a Flickr account we made for it, and the frame automatically pulls them down (over built-in WiFi) and displays them.
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Must... hack... shmokes' Flicr account...
shardian:
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 11, 2007, 10:42:59 am ---I highly recommend building one. The one I made is SOOOO nice. 1000x more classy than pretty much anything you can buy. And, as mentioned, it uses Slickr so my in-laws don't even do anything to it aside from plug it in and turn it on. They live in Idaho and we live in Florida, but whenever we want we just upload pictures to a Flickr account we made for it, and the frame automatically pulls them down (over built-in WiFi) and displays them. This means that when my wife's parents get home from work their picture frame is displaying brand new pictures of their grand daughter that they've never seen before. Really cool.
There's a thread somewhere here with pictures of it. It was lots of fun to build. The secret is this fantastic website called americanframe.com. They will make custom-frames and mats dirt-cheap. IIRC the frame and mat for my project was like $25 total.
It may not be the most economical route if you're starting with nothing, but lots of people have old, unused laptops laying around somewhere. Put that thing to use! That's what I did, so I ended up with a 15", very high-res digital picture frame that can be updated from anywhere in the world over the internet, for about $25 and a little elbow grease. Not a bad deal.
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Wow, thanks for the link to the custom framer. I have had a limited edition panoramic print of my teams football stadium sitting in its canister for years. Custom framing locally is in the ballpark of $250. I just whipped up a quick and dirty complete frame over on that site with a double mat, plexi, and mounting board for roughly $75. I'll definitely be going with them for the real thing.
ChadTower:
The concept of that self updating frame is pretty cool, have to say. I may have to look into building one of those in the spring. I'd much rather have it update from a local source, though, than have to open up the firewall for it, as this one will be local.
shmokes:
Yeah . . . I've framed a few things through them. Always fantastic (though I've only got metal frames from them so far so I can't comment on wood). The only downside to frames for prints is that they only do plexi -- no glass. I assume that this has everything to do with shipping concerns.
Anyway, here's the thread with my project in it (with pictures). If you go through them, be sure to buy a frame stand. They're like $1 or $2 or something, but we forgot to buy one and ended up having to place another order (and incur s&h charges again). They're really cool, too. Much better than the typical triangle of cardboard most picture frames use.
Also . . . if you build one of these, remember that hanging it on the wall is not really going to be an option. For one thing, it will have a power cord, which will look dumb dangling out of it. But, more importantly, if there's a laptop inside, it's going to need to breath. I drilled vent-holes in the backing (and even installed a little fan that I happened to be able to canibalize from the laptop). But this would be useless if the thing was pressed up against a wall. It would burn up in no-time.
edit: heh . . . forgot the link
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