Building the WallTop 110
mramsundar writes "Here is an interesting link that shows how to convert your laptop into something called as walltop. A number of these walltops, when connected, can host a slideshow that can show digitized images."
um (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Very cool & mirror (Score:4, Interesting)
I used to have a site where anyone could upload any image to it from the internet. It ran for 2 years before I moved.
http://www.cowshark.com/artwall/artwall.jpg [cowshark.com]
Check out the last few pictures I had. http://www.cowshark.com/artwall/current.html [cowshark.com]
The future of such things (Score:2, Interesting)
For those who don't like floor-to-ceiling artwork, imagine picture frames made of this material instead of an LCD screen, attached to a microcontroller and short-range wireless receiver, all for under $20. Having your favorite client over for dinner? Change all the pictures to suit his tastes. Having your mother-in-law over? Put something up to scare her away *JUST KIDDING*.
What I'm doing. (Score:4, Interesting)
How secure is BartPE? (Score:3, Interesting)
As much as it's nice to have it networked for ease of changing out the photos, I'd much rather see the PC card slot used to operate a PC Card->CF adapter for sneaker-netting the pics to.
It's difficult enough keeping my other Windows boxes up to date without having to worry whether or not my picture frame is running the latest service pack. Surely the benefit gained from the convenience of being able to update the pictures from a remote server is offset by having to monitor for patch compliance.
All in all though, nice idea. I can imagine setting up two of these in my living room to do "something cool" when I plop a DVD and press "Play" on the remote for my HTPC. This would necessitate that pesky network connection, but perhaps all of that hassle could be overcome by using Linux and carefully configuring the picture-frame to drop all unsolicited incoming packets and only allow traffic via port 21 to/from a specific host. Or maybe (and I'm counting on it) someone has a better idea?
Harry Potter (Score:2, Interesting)
My approach would be to phantom power the device using a network cable and boot from the network. There are linux distros that would do that and provide an X server.
Some kind of sensor could detect the presence of a viewer. The idea is to provide some kind of interaction. Maybe the picture wouldn't talk back to you, or maybe it could. If it was hooked to the network, a remote box could provide the processing power necessary.
Re:Bah (Score:3, Interesting)
The Powerwall (Score:3, Interesting)
The Powerwall [ucalgary.ca]