I found a very interesting project, called Picframe. Sprite hacked his digital photo keychain, now it’s possible to control this mini photo frame and use it as display. He also created a new plugin for LCD4Linux. I also created a patch for picframe, now my mini photo frame is also supported.
Some (rather bad) “in action” shots:
Did I mention that those little devices are quite cheap (~20€)?
5 Comments
1 Nail76 wrote:
I recently bought a cheapo pic frame but my intent is different. I want to understand the direct inputs for the lcd and get rid of the control board. maybe use it for a microtv or other display with a simple power supply and and composite input or some other. is this possible.
2 Jon wrote:
Did you have any trouble with getting the device connected when attempting to upload the new firmware?
With Ubuntu 8.04 it doesn’t appear to be getting assigned to a device node, which I suspect related to the “unknown partition table” error I saw in the below dmesg output. Just curious if you or any readers had any thoughts!
scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access SITRONIX MULTIMEDIA 0.09 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 281.653226] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 4096 512-byte hardware sectors (2 MB)
[ 281.656221] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
[ 281.656227] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 281.656232] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 281.665206] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 4096 512-byte hardware sectors (2 MB)
[ 281.668209] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
[ 281.668212] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 281.668216] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 281.668218] sdf: unknown partition table
[ 281.697217] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 281.697264] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
3 juanmol wrote:
Hi, i have the same picframe, i have flash it and i can use the setpic to display PNGs. I have try to run lcd4linux on it, but when i start it nothing happend, can you explain it please?
4 michu wrote:
you need the latest svn snapshot of lcd4linux and installed libst2205u. build lcd4linux yourself and make sure your enabled the st2205 driver during the ./configure step (something like ./configure —with-drivers=st2205u).
cheers
5 PaulieG wrote:
I saw that thanks to you there is an OpenWrt package st2205tool. I’m having trouble getting this to work with my Innovage-shift3 picframe and OpenWrt 8.09.1 as I describe here: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=14726
Do you have any ideas that I could try?