Hack your digital picture frame, for a price
(Credit:
RedPost)
As fellow Craver Leonard Goh observed the other day, anything and everything is subject to hacking these days, including firmware for cameras. So it seems fitting that this open-source spirit be extended to digital picture frames as well.
RedPost has answered that call with "Sign Beta," a hackable Linux frame that succeeds the original released last year. But rather than just display photos, Technbob says, the new model is designed "to replace wasteful paper-covered bulletin boards with an electronic version."
To wit, it's faster and has four times as much memory (1GB) to run "Wicker," its custom version of Ubuntu Linux. With its Wi-Fi connection, Technabob says it can display "pretty much anything that can run in Firefox" on its 19-inch LCD mounted on a brushed aluminum case. That is, if you're willing to pay $599 for it.
But, it's really a misnomer to call this thing a photo frame in the first place. It's a low-powered wireless hackable device that has more in common with your desktop than a photo frame. It's like a Chumby on steroids.
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- by edyagi June 9, 2008 12:53 PM PDT
- Jeroen Domburg provides instructions on how to hack the firmware on those cheap (~$20) keychain digital picture frame so that you can send images, stream video! and even use it as a mini console by sending it text through the usb connected to a unix (asus eee) box.
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