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Mini Photo Frame Hack

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Linux hints 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€)?

 

Posted by michu

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  1. Nail76 says:
    12/23/2008 02:37:48 AM

    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 says:
    01/12/2009 10:45:46 PM

    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 says:
    03/20/2009 02:52:14 PM

    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 says:
    04/01/2009 11:26:46 AM

    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 says:
    07/28/2009 03:24:30 AM

    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?

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