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€)?

Mini Photo Frame Hack

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.

    December 23, 2008 at 02:37 Permalink

  • 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

    January 12, 2009 at 22:45 Permalink

  • 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?

    March 20, 2009 at 14:52 Permalink

  • 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

    April 1, 2009 at 11:26 Permalink

  • 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?

    July 28, 2009 at 03:24 Permalink

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