What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames?

First time accepted submitter icepick3000 writes "There are probably many digital photoframes unused these days laying around. Mine is from the first generation meaning you can only insert a compact flash card and display photos. Newer models nowadays can display weather, news, and stocks. Anyone have some good idea's how to give these old frames a second life? I have been thinking about compact flash cards that support wifi... maybe someone has a better idea?"

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[viperidaenz]

Pray your old photo frame supports SD cards
Use the GPIO on your Arduino/RaspberryPi/Anything network connectable really to emulate an SD card with a filesystem and produce the images to display stock prices/weather/intertubes content on your legacy photo frame.

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Re:Display information

[dasunt]

Googling "digital photo frames hacks" I find the following suggestions as well:

• Put recipes on it, store in the kitchen.
• Store pictures of art you like.
• Store poems you like.
• Scan manuals you use frequently.
• Two images, the first saying "breath in", the second saying "breath out", in slideshow mode with the shortest delay possible. ;)

Re:Why choose to be unhappy?

[asmkm22]

You're thinking of Hackaday.com

Here's a fun project, even if it's limited in scope.
http://hackaday.com/2011/06/13/wifi-sniffing-digital-picture-frame/ [hackaday.com]

Re:This is stupid

[Robert Zenz]

I'm pretty sure you can use the Dead Badger Tutorial also on cats.

No

[SmallFurryCreature]

This is Slashdot 2012, home of console gamers and modding everything as troll and flamebait that people don't agree with.

The real hackers moved on. They didn't tell me where. Hackers and my parents... is it so hard to leave a forwarding address?