digital Photo frame made from old laptop

MicGavin

I am dismanteling a madion md96970, and was planning to put needed pieces into a frame Iv made to create a wifi digital pic frame, But I was wondering would I be able to stream Media Centre to it aswell// and if so do I need to add anything extra???
Any opinion would be appreciated!!

MicGavin

All Im using from the laptop is: -motherboard
-wifi
-dvd burner
-keybored
-screen
-and possible the mouse touch pad as a manual control to change pic

Mista_C

I did this a few years back with a Toshiba Tecra A2. I kept the screen, motherboard, ram, cpu, etc. The keyboard and touchpad went and I bought a Winows Media Remote to use with XP Media Center 2005.

I had no use for the optical drive and kept all media on a file server. I made a share on the Frame so I could copy new photos in remotely and remove old photos as needed. I also removed the HDD and replaced it with a decent size Compact Flash card using a CF/IDE adapter so has to lighten the whole unit.

I originally did it with a DOS interface and found a way to access USB via DOS although no wifi at that time. Boot up was instant and using a batch file menu I was able to access my memory stick to copy new photos on. It got a bit cumbersome this way hence the sacrifice of boot time with Windows.

MicGavin

i was thinking dos too just cause my maindrive is !!!!!!ed so was going to get dos or basic win to boot off disc, as iv been told theres a tweaked version of lxpic that will allow me to change to current screen resalution n all that crap so its makeing full use of the led screen, but I still havent come across it, do you know of any other pgrms that would suit the purpose??:beer:

Mista_C

MicGavin wrote: »

i was thinking dos too just cause my maindrive is !!!!!!ed so was going to get dos or basic win to boot off disc, as iv been told theres a tweaked version of lxpic that will allow me to change to current screen resalution n all that crap so its makeing full use of the led screen, but I still havent come across it, do you know of any other pgrms that would suit the purpose??:beer:

I can't remember what I was using for the DOS version offhand (it may have been lxpic as it sounds familiar) but it did allow me to use 1024*768 which was the max res of the A2 using it's own screen. I have got it on disc somewhere so if you can hang on for 30 mins until the kids are in bed I'll get my backup discs out and see if I can find it.

Mista_C

Sorry, I couldn't find the program although it was lxpic as I found a text file called lxpic but the file itself was empty. I thought I'd kept a backup of the DOS version but apparently not, all I could find was some aspi driver and a copy of the program damp, a media player for DOS.

It's still possible I have the whole thing backed up to an external hard drive somewhere.