How to Make a Digital Picture Frame - DPF from an Old Laptop or Notebook

Do you want to bring an old laptop or notebook back to life? Here are links to free do-it-yourself instructions to make a digital photo frame. If you have written a free guide yourself (or if you know of a tutorial not linked here), please submit a new entry.

Acer TravelMate 522TXV	A selfmade DIY digital picture frame - or how to turn an old laptop into something useful. Includes a illustrated disassembly guide.
Apple iBook 14''	Turn your laptop into a picture frame.
Apple iBook	Taking apart an old, broken notebook and creating a digital picture frame with wireless network connectivity.
Apple iBook Clamshell	From a clamshell to digital picture frame.
Apple iBook (BlueBerry)	Creating a Digital LCD Picture Frame.
Apple iBook	ePicFrame: turning an iBook with a broken hinge into a digital picture frame.
Apple iBook G3	Tired roadwarrior takes deskjob: converting an iBook with bent hinges it into a compact, kiosk style computer.
Apple PowerBook 540c	A notebook to Digital Picture Frame conversion. Disassembly tutorial, clock batter ressurection, wooden case HOWTO.
Apple PowerBook 1400	Doing a laptop to digital picture frame conversion.
Apple PowerBook 1400C	Building a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook Duo 270c/280c	Building a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook 3400c	Laptop to Digital Picture Frame conversion, ultimate picture frame resource.
Apple/Macintosh Powerbook 100	How to build a monochrome digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook 3400	Taking the notebook completely apart and building a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook 1400c	Detailed HOWTO about making a digital picture frame.
Apple PowerBook G3 Wallstreet	Re-using an old notebook by building a digital frame for pictures.
Apple PowerBook G3	Turning a laptop into a picture frame, includes take apart tutorial and pictures.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titaninum (TiBook, 1. Gen.)	Hanging Laptop Digital Painting: Take your old laptop, matte it, frame it, and convert it into a hanging framed digital LCD screen to do with as you like.
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium (TiBook)	TIre wall - a Ti-Book with a broken hinge turned into a wall mounted firewall.
AST Premium Exec 386SX/20	Building a digital picture frame.
AST Ascentia J30	Homemade digital picture frame.
COMPAQ Armada E700	This guide explains how to rip off an old broken laptop and turn it into a Digital Picture Frame - DPF.
COMPAQ Presario	How to turn an old laptop into a digital picture frame.
COMPAQ Presario 305	This guide explains how to transfer an old laptop into a Digital-Picture-Frame - DPF (in Spanish).
CTX EzBook	Making your own digital picture frame from an old laptop.
DELL Inspiron 3000	How to resurrect an old laptop as a digital picture frame.
DELL Latitude 300	Take apart and re-use an old laptop as a digital picture frame.
DELL Latitude CSx	Building a WallTop: How to put a laptop inside a regular frame and hang it on the wall.
DELL Latitude CSxH 500MHz	Funny and very detailed digital picture frame creation "tour". Frame gets pictures wirelessly from the web. Frame hangs on the wall and looks awesome!
Digital/DEC HiNote VP575	How to build a digital picture frame, includes dissection pictures.
Fujitsu LifeBook E-6595	Digital Picture Frame - DPF that syncs with a central server.
Fujitsu Stylistic 3400S	How to turn a broken Tablet PC into a digital picture frame.
HP OmniBook 5700CT	How to turn the notebook into an electronical picture frame (in German).
HP OmniBook 5700CTX	Explains how to built a digital picture frame using MS-Windows 2000 and an old laptop.
HP OmniBook 5700CTX	Explains how to built a digital picture frame using MS-Windows 2000 and an old laptop (in French).
HP Pavilion DV1000	Instead of keeping an old laptop, probably stashing it away in my closet you may get creative and use this detailed guide to construct your personal digital picture frame.
HP/COMPAQ NC4010	The procedure for building a custom digital picture frame explained: disassemble the laptop, remove all unnecessary components, cram the rest into a picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad (unknown model)	DIY digital picture frame runs Windows CE.
IBM ThinkPad 365XD	Making a pictureframe from an old broken laptop.
IBM ThinkPad 370C	The Swedish Chef: How an old laptop gets a second chance in life as a picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 380	How to create a digital picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 380D	Converting an old laptop into a digital picture frame, a picture gallery about the conversion.
IBM ThinkPad 560	Making an electronic picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 560X	Project Bling: How to take some glue and a bit of patience to make digital picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 560/560E	Case Mod: Digital Picture Frame. A complete and illustrated assembly guide.
IBM ThinkPad 600	A laptop converted into a rotating digital picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 770	DaliPC: an old laptop being transformed into an "electronic painting". Booting with no keyboard hack.
IBM ThinkPad 770E	Take apart an old notebook and reassembly it as a digital picture frame. The keyboard hack describes how to go along without keyboard.
IBM ThinkPad i1400	The making of a digital picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad T21	The DIY Digital Photo Frame: Turn an old laptop into a digital frame that automatically displays new shots from your Flickr account, then give it to your mother.
Micron Transport XKE	A remote-controlled digital picture frame, includes slideshow software and a selfmade IR control.
NEC Versa V50	A digital photo frame built into a nice wooden case.
Olivetti Echos P100D	A step-by-step laptop to Digital Picture Frame conversion (in French).
Ricoh G-1200S	Making a digital picture frame for running slideshows.
Siemens PCD-5ND	PictureWall: merging an old laptop and a dumped TFT display into something new (in German).
Sony VAIO PCG-505SN	A digital picture frame running Linux. Schematics for a nice wooden case.
Sony VAIO PCG-N.N.	How to take apart the laptop and turn it into a digital photo frame.
Sony VAIO PCG-FX310	How to transform an old laptop into a Digital Picture Frame and put it into a shadowbox.
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505JS	The goal of this project is to turn an old laptop into a digital photo frame with more features than a normal digital picture frame has.
Topline N.N.	This laptop modification puts the laptop into a painting-like frame so you can hang it on the wall or set it straight onto a solid surface.
Toshiba Portege 2000	The great thing about using an old laptop for something like this is you get a bigger, higher resolution screen than a proper off-the-shelf digital picture frame (DPF).
Toshiba Satellite	eFrame: Learn how to build your own digitial picture frame from scratch.
Toshiba Satellite 100CS	A digital picture pad (in German).
Toshiba Satellite 110CS	Digital Picture Frame FAQ.
Toshiba Satellite 325CDS	How to build a non-destructive notebook digital photo frame (in Portuguese).
Toshiba Satellite 330CDT	The making of a digital photo frame with back/next buttons (in French).
Toshiba Satellite 420CDT	Disassembly and reassembly as a digital picture frame - DPF.
Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS	How to take apart the laptop and convert it into a digital picture frame.
Toshiba Satellite 5205-S703	How to convert a laptop into a Digital Photo Frame - DPF.
Toshiba Satellite A20 (PSA20C-OCH4DP)	A short tutorial about taking the laptop completely apart and converting it into a digital picture frame.
Toshiba Satellite A60	Walltop: Design and Construction. The transformation of a laptop into an wall-mounted computer system.
Toshiba Satellite (unknown model)	How to make a digital photo-picture frame form an old laptop.
Toshiba Tecra	DigiFrame - laptop mutilation.
Toshiba Tecra 8000	Here is a digital picture frame running BartPE.
Toshiba Tecra 8000	How to dissect an old laptop and strip it to it's bare minimum to build a digital picture frame for little money.
Toshiba Tecra 8100	Picture gallery explaining the disassembly of a trashed laptop and re-assembly as a digital photo frame - DPF.
Toshiba Tecra 9000	The Junktop Revival: building a picture frame from a dumped laptop.
Toshiba (unknown model)	Converting an old laptop into a picture frame.
Winbook C140	An attempt at putting a notebook computer into a picture frame to displaying a gallery of digital photos. Brief walk-through and list of potential issues. Code for web based dynamic photo gallery.
N.N.	Convert an old laptop into a digital picture frame.
N.N.	A Cheap, Elegant, Digital Picture Frame: How to build a non-destructive laptop digital picture frame.
N.N.	The DIY Digital Picture / Video Frame: this tutorial will walk you through the steps to create your own digital picture frame from a junk laptop. This is a great way to recycle your old laptop that has been laying around for a while and create something new and useful. It will touch all aspects from the hardware modifications required, to the software and the preparation of your pictures.
N.N.	Digital photoframe made from an old laptop.
N.N.	Wondering what to do with an old laptop? Here is your answer: In a nutshell you'll be taking apart some of an old laptop, reconfiguring it a little, mounting it inside a store bought picture box, and sealing it all up.

Layout Tables and Light Boxes

N.N.	How to make a layout table from a notebook display.
IBM ThinkPad 600E	LightPad: Turning the display from a broken laptop into a light box.