What About Building Your Own Digital Picture Frame?
Are you frustrated by the digital and wireless picture frames being offered by manufacturers? Do you love the idea of the digital picture frame, but find yourself wanting something not currently for sale? Are you very technical, a tinkerer who can create or fix their own electronics regularly?
If so, perhaps you should consider building your own digital picture frame.
This kind of project is surely only for the technically advanced or adept, the folks who really like to take stuff apart and put it back together. DIY digital frames may also lack some of the nice content features offered by companies like Ceiva – though I’ve got a great solution to that for you DIYers at the end of this article.
If you’re not a tinkerer, or if you’re someone who gets worried when they put something back together and can’t figure out where all those “extra” pieces are supposed to go, it will be best for you to buy a commercial product.
But, if you figure those leftover pieces were probably wasted anyway, this project is right up your alley.
In order to build your own frame, you need a few things:
- Hardware
- Software
- Tools
- Know-How
- Some time
