June 5, 2008 – 1:40 pm

Ingenious hack to enable those cheap tiny keychain digital picture frame to display videos from your desktop

Jeroen Domburg provides instructions on how to hack those ubiquitous keychain digital picture frames so that it can stream video from a desktop (unfortunately, only for the Linux/Mac? at this point)

Jeroen provides a detailed analysis of the internals of the digital picture frame, and the steps he took to be able to stream a video from his cpu to the device. Other individuals have developed their own apps to display cool widgets on the lcd such as integration into flickr to display images from the Internet and lcd4linux, which make the lcd a mini console.

He also provides a download (tgz) for the software necessary to modify the firmware of the digital picture frame to enable this awesome hack.

Heres a youtube video of a video stream to the device:







Original Site Here: http://spritesmods.com/?art=picframe&page=1

He has also setup a wiki here: http://picframe.spritesserver.nl/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

This is an awesome hack, as it could be possible to enable these cheap digital picture frames to act as a secondary monitor that can display widgets such as IM notifications, twitter, rss feeds, CPU and memory utilization, photshop tool details, stock feeds, email notifications, mrtg graphs, system monitoring notifications etc!

Apparently this Digital Picture Frame from Amazon or this one from dealextreme works with the mod/hack. Here is a complete list of compatible devices