(queue poorly taken photo in the dark with obligatory cat) Less mess.Īt this point, the photoframe lives! Hurrah! It was also at this time I found that I didn’t even need the controls for the monitor, it happily started up without a hitch or prodding, so I ended up just leaving the connector for the controls available but not connected. I simply glued the darn thing onto the frame. After debating wether I should get a case, build a case, or something else. At this point I was regretting not having a more modern screen with USB output (but on second thought, that would probably not have been enough amps anyway). Now I had to figure out a nice way of mounting and hooking up the Raspberry Pi 3 to the display. Bring forth the industrial strength dewalt one! Oh yeah!īy filling in the gap between the HDF and the frame, I made sure they’d be friends forever (they better, used 5 sticks of glue) Step 6: Wiring things up And not that puny “craft” glue gun, oh no. Next, I needed to make sure it would not fall out of the frame.Įnter the glue gun. Some hours later, the glue had cured and I now had a very nice back on my frame. It also avoided pinching the panel which was something I was worried about. This helped me keep things where they were supposed to be. So I essentially layered more HDF into the frame and display using glue between HDF pieces and doublesided foam tape between the panel’s backside and the HDF. Step 5: Securing itįirst, I had some brilliant ideas for how I was going to make the display stay inside the frameīut as the work progressed, it became clear I needed to make it a bit more sturdy and secure to avoid having the panel falling out the back. Now with a white mat, which made it look a heck of a lot better. I went to work with my figure saw and dremelĪnd before long, I was able to gently fit the display and HDF inside the frameĪt which point I realized I was missing something… One quick visit to Michaels and I was back I didn’t feel like getting any flex in the construction.Īs you guessed (well, I told you actually), the frame was much bigger than the display and it was time to make it all fit. Also making a guest appearence is the trusty HDF … What? not MDF you ask? Well, I got a bit carried away, especially since we’re talking about a monitor here. At 24x16 inches big, more than enough to fit the panel with some room to spare. Something which makes it feel more upscale and more befitting than a raw metal casing.Įnter the distressed wood frame. And it worked, I promise :-)Īfter having dismantled the monitor, it was time to find it a suitable home. Nothing that a bit (or a lot) of kapton tape cannot fix :-) IntermissionĪ quick testrun with all parts assembled. Not too shabby for a software engineer, no? (yeah yeah, don’t worry, I won’t quit my day job) It helped that I invested in some extra hands Next step was to solder on some buttons to replace the touch and membrane design that was used. The drawback was that the power was built-in and added a fair amount of bulk.īut hey, free monitor, hard to complain. The speakers (the black boxes at the bottom) were easy to remove and lie at the bottom of the trashcan today. It turned out that the panel wasn’t much larger than the display itself which was handy and the controls could easily be relocated as needed. It didn’t come with any instructions, but after some time, it finally came apart and spread its innards for me. Seemed like a perfect combination and my quest for the perfect frame began. On top of that, a friend of mine gave me a Raspberry Pi 3 to play with. It’s a perfectly functional Viewsonic 24” 1080p screen. So my project should marry the power of image search with a decently sized digital photoframe.Īs luck would have it, my wife’s monitor wasn’t being used (no really, her words, not mine). You can search byĪnd then you can even combine them and also exclude photos based on content. With todays image recognition algorithms, it’s now possible to search the photos you store on Google Photos in a more contextual way. So I decided to see what I could do about it. Needless to say that gets old very quickly (and you end up turn it off). Gone are the days of physical photo albums, and while it’s possible to set up a Chromecast or Plex Media Center to showcase photos, we still end up in a situation where we need to manually make sure there’s some good content. While there are quite a few options out there for those who want a digital photoframe, they’re either too small or too expensive and in most (all?) cases they require you to curate the content and upload it to their platform (or worse still, put it on a SD card like it’s 2007 all over again).īoth me and my wife take a lot of photos, but very rarely do we actually browse through them.
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