Diy digital photoframe windows#
I'm using Windows XP to drive the photo frame, and using the default ‘my pictures’ screensaver. Main board now mounted securely into the frame.Īnd finally attached the back to the frame.Įxternal Power re-routed to the back, and holes drilled for power on/off and venting I finally managed to track them down, and secured the main board. The next job was to attach the main board to the hard wood - the more challenging aspect was to find 2.5mm x 20 mm nuts and bolts. I then cut some square timber to place at the top and bottom of the screen (and glued with wood glue), to enable me to screw the 4mm hard wood on top. I lined the lcd screen up with the edges of the perspex, and then hot glue was applied in large quantities to hold it in place. View of the frame looking from the inside –> out.
He was very obliging, and did a stunning job for the modest sum of NZ$90.īelow is the view of the front of the frame – the black inlay is perspex, surrounded by wooden framing.
Diy digital photoframe full size#
So with this in mind, I measured the full size of the main board, and screen area and depth of all the components, and visited a local framer – The Frame Workshop. I decided I wanted to completely remove the laptop from its casing make it look ‘pretty’ :-) I did a fair about of searching to see how others had converted laptops – Most had simply pulled the screen off the laptop, twisted the connecting cable between the laptop and the base, and then mounted it into some sort of case, typically a shadow box frame. The issue with this can be the ease at updating photos, and regularity of doing so – So I wanted to automate this as much as possible, and remove the need to physically “plug” something in.īelow is an old Toshiba Tecra S1 which has become the ‘brains’ of my Digital Photo frame. In New Zealand we seem to be limited to frames that have photos stored on a USB Stick/Flash drive, and it’s difficult to find photo frames that can be connected to a network in order to pull photos from a chosen source. Over the past few months, I’ve searched about for a decent digital photo frame to display our photos on.
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