Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a project to convert my wife’s old laptop into a digital picture frame as a Christmas gift for my grandparents. There was a hardware component and a software component to the project: the hardware part was demolishing the laptop and remounting it into a picture frame, and the software part was building a custom linux distribution to actually display the pictures and allow importing new ones.
It’s been a fun and educational experience, which I couldn’t write about in my blog for fear that Grandma would read about it and ruin the surprise. Now that the project is over, I’m embarking on a secondary project to document what I did, and what I learned.