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What would you suggest for an affordable picture frame displaying digital art?
by leipert 6y ago
What would you suggest for an affordable picture frame displaying digital art?
- dsr_ 6y agoIf you can plug it into a wall, have a Raspberry Pi 4 series driving a 4K TV of the size of your choice. The cheapest one I see on Amazon right now is a 40" 4K HDR from Vizio, with quite a small bezel - $240. Hang it on a wall and paint the bezel white, or make a nice wood frame for it.
- dafoex 6y ago40" is massive for a picture frame
- dsr_ 6y agoWhen you don't like the pictures, you can change them. You can give them special frames and mattes. You can show 36 Views of Mount Fuji all at once, and then two at a time. And you can watch Netflix on it later.
- adrianN 6y ago5W for the Pi, 60W for the screen is about 550kWh per year, or around 200kg of CO2 (give or take your local energy mix). That's about 10% of an average Indian's emissions.
- baybal2 6y agoA second hand TV? Large size LCDs got ridiculously cheap with time. It may be cheaper to by a 40 inch LCD panel, than a 10 inch high-end Eink
- Fnoord 6y agoThe costs in electricity bill is gonna be big compared to e-ink. Refresh rate of static picture can be terrible, OK for this use case. There's also color e-ink devices, though not many, and the colors were IMO too pastel-ish. Although backlight of a second hand TV might also be dying, I agree say Chromecast on TV gives a nice effect. My oldest kid gets impressed, FWIW.
- detaro 6y agoThe difficult bit is making it not look like a screen. Even the fancy Sony "the frame" (which are supposed to do clever matching to room brightness etc) TVs don't get that quite right, and only do it in some special mode...
- Triv888 6y agoGood luck running that for years on a battery...
- berdario 6y agoIf you keep your photos in Google Photos, I found the Nest Hub quite nice, since it automatically rotates among your recent photos (It also automatically dims or blacks out the display when it's dark)