The guide!:

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Introduction: This is my first attempt at writing this. I may have skipped some minor (or major) details. If you think I have, please feel free to drop me a line. Also, please feel free to email me with any comments, suggestions, etc.

On March 24, 2004, we had a snow day. No one saw it comming. I was dead bored, with nothing to do. Going through some old stuff, I found a PowerBook 1400. I said to myself... gee... wouldn't that be cool to have my very own digital picture frame? So I got to work! If you use a 2400 or 5300 or generally just about anything newer than the 1400, then you would 1: Have a 32 bit PCMCIA slot, and hence be able to use most wifi cards and 2: Be able to easilly install Debian GNU/Linux(the 1400 is NuBus). A new (used) powerbook of the sort would probably be about 100 bucks. I then found an 8x10 frame sitting around (A few bucks at some dry goods store), and using a knife, I cut in the extra room for the LCD. The key is to use a wooden frame that has a lot of extra room so that you can fit in the entire LCD. I used a piece of thick white paper to make a border for the parts of the frame where the LCD didn't fit. I used some sticky glue to hold on a piece of thin cardboard to the back of the lcd, and used hot glue to adhere the sides of the cardboard onto the frame (trapping the LCD in place). I pieced out the mobo etc. until it all fit, and then duct taped it all on. Though in one of the pictures you can see that there's a network card and a hard drive, I quickly got rid of them. I replaced the network card with a 128MB SmartMedia card (to store the pictures), and the hard drive with a 128MB CompactFlash card, which runs a slimmed down version of MacOS 8. I set up JPEGView to automatically start a slideshow at boot time. It works like a dream! As you can see in the other pictures, I've since built a full case out of wood. The back is made out of pegboard to give heat a bit of a way out. There are also three large holes in the top to let heat escape.

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The photo gallery!

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