Dude, this is awesome!

*amazed by all your nerdly glory!*

Not nerd, geek.

Sam you are a genious with a very messy room. Remember last time I saw your room I told you you need to clean it? Yeah, well if a clean room keeps you from letting your inner genious out then keep that room messy. You are so effing awesome.

Oh, yeah. I don't understand those instructions. Blah. Come show me how it works. I have a very boring picture to send your way.

ha
yea

Geeks are cool. That is awesome.

I vote for the hallway.

I think I will move it out to the hallway as soon as I get tired of it lightingh up my room at night. :)

Like that will ever happen. You don't sleep. SO why would a light on at night bother you? Hmmmmmm?

Best. Pictureframe. EVER.

thankyou!

You put a frame on a tablet PC. Wow, that must have taken at least 5 minutes.
I'm really not impressed.

That's an expensive pictureframe.

Quote: "That's an expensive pictureframe."

It wouldn't be that expensive... it was a 100mhz tablet... RTFA!

not bad.

-pillowcase

anyone who thinks this sucks can shove it...it's not expensive either. rtfa indeed, and certainly don't take hack-a-day's word for it since they completely miscategorized this(but at least they linked this for more people to see)

this is a very good use of something that otherwise would have sat around gathering dust...and it's still better than those damn ceiva frames that can't even work without a service fee. really, what else are you going to do with something with an LCD that runs @ 100MHz? I can think of only 1 thing...a picture frame. and who doesn't love bungie cords??? it looks great from the front and that's really all that matters.

i definitely think this needs to be left out where more people can admire it...like the hallway or living room.

meh - I give it 1 star out of 5 for originality, 5 out of 5 for recycling an otherwise out of date and unusable piece of tech, 5 out of 5 for reversibility, and 1 star out of 5 for construction quality.

There have been more involved laptop -> picture frame conversions out there, most of them ripping the screen and motherboard out of an old junker laptop, and building a wooden box to go on the back of the picture frame to hold everything inside. I always thought they could benefit from a touchscreen - here you get one for free as it was already a tablet PC :)

What an awesome idea. Creative, recycling..and just pure fun! I can't wait to peruse some "junk" stores and buy some old laptops... each of my techie kids are going to get a kit to make for Christmas.. plus lots of frames, mats, bungie cords etc.. so they can create thier own! We work hard every year to top last years "too funny" but useful gifts... We then create framed certificates for the WINNING gift.. I have a contender if not a winner this year. THANKS for the great idea.. I will include this web page in the directions.. with full credit to y'all. Thanks, a very happy surfer. Cindy

I wonder how many pictures of goatse are going to be uploaded!

nice way to use an old tab pc
i was thinking about using one as a "fish tank"
just run some aquarium software on it

http://www.rollette.com/iopener/index.html and mine was only 50 bucks.

Heh, dude, it's cool. You could make a hole in the wall, and it'd be like a simple picture on the wall - and even the cable wouldn't be there. :)

Thanks for taking a look. You're right, its not a terribly difficult project - I thought about taking the casing off and building a frame and everything but that just seemed like a lot of work and it would look pretty much the same in the end.

The real hard part was getting the webserver working. It's not as easy as you might think on a very old tablet with minimal input devices and win98 for the operating system. Getting all that up and running ws the real task.

Besides, it wasn't meant to wow anyone - just to entertain me and whoever else might come over.

The tablet was about $60 a year ago. I wasn't using it for anything - and its so old this was the only good use I could think of...

thanks!

Thanks for your kind words! Yea, it aint really pretty but it doesn the job and looks fine from the front.

I have moved it so its at the end of a hallway now, with the cords mostly hidden, so you can't see the sides, and it fits actually pretty well!

Oh man, I better start screening!

wow - that is almost identical to mine - same OS and walmart frame it looks like! I wonder if you can upload to his?

tell that to my landlord!

oh I didn't realize you said YOU did it. So how was it cooler? I mean, besides better construction did yours allow people to upload to it and such? What other ideas have you used it for?

this is actually pretty lame, ive seen like maybe a dozen diy digital frames which own this one

hack a linux kernel into that bitch and use it as a control point for a digital media center and then i *may give you some props

i would also like to find out where i you can get one of those for $60, i would be all over that

Good reply!
I liked it.

why hack linux noob? Just compile it yourself..

Mate that is best thing I have seen yet, I am even thinking about doing one, just think it's everyone's else tastes. You dont know what the hell is going to go up...

JB

Hmm 'hack' a linux kernel into it, eh? Now that would be so 'leet', controlling a media center. I bet your version of that would be slapping knoppix on that and calling yourself 'k1ngh4x0r'. Or getting the kernel build all wrong, trying to 'make HACK_DA_KERNEL'.

I did the same thing, but getting a better finish on it (in depth especially - 0.8"/22mm) with my WallTop project. Have a look at it at Grynx.com
Still - yours is a great idea of using something 'useless' that you have and doing something useful with it.
/Chris

Pretty cool stuff man. Not the best construction, but Ive seen worse. and the bungie technology, that shit will never go out of date.

Keep up the good work.

~Kiyoshi

PS-your site was featured on hackaday.com in case you didnt know already.

I already have a pinnacle showcenter that plays media from my network onto my TV. It was free and has a remote that doesn't take 10 minutes to boot.

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Thanks - you know I originally considered duct tape but dropped it in favor of bungie cords which wont sufficate the thing.
:)

i'm glad i'm not the only one with 2 crappy monitors ;)
anywho take that sillything down and go war driving sheesh

I have plenty of laptops to go wardriving with - enough that I dont want to try getting the wireless drivers working in win98 (which turned out to be a big pain!)

It's micro$oft what do you expect?

Still mate it's the best I've seen question are you able to veiw the all the uploaded pics in a gallery?

yes, I can ftp to the pictureframe and view all the pictures and delete them if needs be.

By the way, it has been down for the last week or so because I've been moving.

are you able to lock the ftp down, so we can view all of the crazy people's photos out there cause that would be kinda funky

the only way to view them from the outside is on the gthing.net webpage, although currently, where the pictures should be there is a hole. I haven't quite gotten moved in to my new place yet and decided where to put the thing back up.

cheers.

Great! Thanks for your input!