Digital Picture Frame Solution

[kbfirebreather]

A few years ago I took my then girlfriends old laptop and attempted to turn it into a digital picture frame. It was a bust. Even with the case stripped off the internals, it would still overheat within minutes after being turned on and turn off. Fast forward to present day. We're getting married next July, have an insane amount of expenses coming up, and put a $50 dollar limit on our gifts to each other for this year. Originally I was just going to buy a few random things and call it a day. Then Black Friday hit and I ended up buying new monitors for my desktop. This resulted in me now having 2x 19'' monitors laying around. I gave one to my mom and decided to use the other along with one of the 6 Pi's I have to replace that original faulty photo frame.

The instructions can be found on github @ https://github.com/kbfirebreather/rpi-d ... hoto-frame

What this will do is use the linux fbi program to drive the photo frame. It will also resize your photographs to your native resolution (which you will need to update the resize.sh script accordingly, or neglect to add that cron job) to help save space.

Default time between each picture is 10 seconds, which can be changed in the slideshow.sh file.

Here is a video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCNlHYpK ... tu.be&t=35

[FLYFISH TECHNOLOGIES]

Hi,

You might want to add a (passive IR) sensor to detect persons presence/absence in order to enter/exit power saving modes.

Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati and others are already slowly sinking below the sea surface...


Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.

[kbfirebreather]

Not a bad thought. Although, the Pi uses 5W maximum, which this setup isn't maxing out the power usage on the Pi. The monitor uses quite a bit more, but shouldn't be more than 50W. Combined, running 24/7 @ 10 cents per kWh, would equate to about $48/year or $4/month. Isn't too big of a deal considering, but definitely would be a fun feature to add!

[DexOS]

Nice work i went the bare metal rout, when making mine, so it can be turned on and off fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-5epQTul8

[FLYFISH TECHNOLOGIES]

Hi,

running 24/7 @ 10 cents per kWh, would equate to about $48/year or $4/month

You definitely missed the message written in my second sentence above... but, on the other hand, it is also far beyond this forum, so I should probably not get sad when your first association to it is your wallet.


Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.

[txt3rob]

dude thank you i have some ideas that would be perfect to add on to this for my wedding!

[willtor]

Hi,


Thanks for sharing your project!


It is a good way of saying no to the planned obsolescence

You know if it would be possible to implement a "Ripple Effects" effect when you touch screen. Do you know where I can find the programming for this purpose?

Thank you!

[Sarel1965]

Can someone ad 4 buttons on this code to scroll up down and left and right through the pictures and email me the code please to sarel65@gmail.com
I want to put CD covers on display for a jukebox but must be able to scroll the CD,s
Thanks