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- An old laptop, which doesn't have enough memory in it to run today's software
- A picture frame from Ikea
- Flickr
The plan is to have this picture frame showing all photographs with a certain tag: and for it to rotate through them every five minutes or so.
So far, I've stripped down the laptop, mostly to turn the screen around, to make it as flat as possible, and to strip as much prettiness from the casing to ensure the thing runs nice and cool. The frame's planned to be open at the back, so that it doesn't get too hot.
Things still to do:
1. Find some software (or bake my own) which will do a good job as a screen saver type thing under Windows 2000. After checking, none really exist: most insist on Windows XP (which this laptop doesn't have). I suspect the solution is probably a simple Flash application, but I need to work out how to get the photos from Flickr - I'd like to do it automatically, rather than manually. I suspect that I'll share a folder on this laptop, and tell it to frequently check how many files there are inside it.
2. Work out some way of keeping the laptop affixed inside. The good news is that this frame is quite nice and thick, and made of wood. Stubby screws will probably do the job.
3. Get some frame mounting card properly cut, rather than the amateur job here. And find a nice photograph to put in the other frame.
4. Put VNC Server onto the laptop, so I don't need to use the keyboard
5. For the best effect, work out how to hide the mains lead that goes into it. A cheat would be to put this on a window ledge or shelf.
I feel sure someone's already done this, so any comments would be welcome.
Double frame created with Apparent Software's ImageFramer 2.4.6 for Mac OS X. First the art border frame was used and that file was saved. Then that file was framed with the wooden frame.
Double frame created with Apparent Software's ImageFramer 2.4.6 for Mac OS X. First the art border frame was used and that file was saved. Then that file was framed with the wooden frame.
Making picture frames out of circuit boards removed from old hard drives.
Idea for a tiny digital picture frame: Use the display from a digital camera.
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This is a mitre chops used to trim mitres in the manner of 18th and 19th century cabinet makers and picture frames who did not have such things are mitre trimmers or sanding disks. It is made from mahogany. I tried to make this as accurately as I could. I used a surface plate a lot, in fact, when I had finished planing the triangular pieces you could feel them sticking to the surface plate due to sticktion. The screw box and tap that I had was a bit too small though but given that they are hard to come by I went ahead with what I had. The resulting screw thread is a bit too thin to tighten as much as I would like. If I ever come across a bigger screw box I might get round to making a thicker screw thread. In terms of how you use this you simply clamp the moulding so it sticks out of the jaws a tiny bit (having already cut it to a mitre with a fine saw). You then use a very fine mitre plane or finely tuned block plane with an adjustable mouth and you plane the end grain of the moulding. You don't damage the jaws of the clamp because you can feel when to stop planing because you no longer feel the blade of the plane engage on the moulding when it is flush with the face of the clamp. Some sources suggest they had a sheet of paper glued to them so you would know when to stop planing but I have never seen this on antique ones I have seen and I think this would make a mess of the accurately crafted face.
I've started covering picture frames with newspapers. Anybody have a paper from some far off city? Please send it to me!
www.flickr.com/photos/repoort/2466889572/in/set-720575941...
Making picture frames out of circuit boards removed from old hard drives.
Smaller circuit boards from smaller hard drives. The two on the left are from laptop drives. The one on the right is from an iPod.
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While taking part in 52/2013 (a group for which you aim to take one good shot per week) I've realised that in order to get anywhere close to something "good" (i.e. I like it) once every week, I'm going to have to carry my camera around more.
I popped round a friend's last night, and only took a short tele lens with me. Kirk Tuck recently wrote about "filling the frame". Somebody else wrote about mixing things up by using something different to your norm, and a short tele ticks that box. I like it.
This just shows it actually hanging on a wall. The white border of the frame doesn't look that great with the white wall, but essentially all my walls are white. If I were to actually use this, I'd want to make it with a black outer border, I suppose.
Picture size 4" x 6", 5" x 7" or 8" x 10".
Delicately hand-crafted using Coconut Shells and Mother of Pearl.
Horizontal or vertical easel-back display.
Backed with Velvet.