12 Megapixel Photoframe

Because I used an RSS feed to warn be about new EIZO 630L-N terminals being sold, I received a new message that someone sold 30 (!) used terminals. All Windows CE 2.12 and in good condition. That is a bit much, but I though some nice things were possible.

I discussed this with some of my friends and we could not find any reasons to actually buy 30 of the machines. But I started to negotiate anyway to see if the price of the screens can go down to a level that I can't refuse.

And so it did.... The next weekend we stepped into the car and filled it with Eizo terminals. There were just too many of them. After we've moved them back into my house there were just about everywere!

Here is a picture of a few of them:



In the dark and from a distance, they looked like a bunch of tombstones in a graveyard, someone noticed...

Now that I have this many of them, time to make plans for a larger digital photo frame! ;-)

I repeated the steps to disassemble the terminals a couple of times so that all my four Eizo 630L-N terminals look 'naked'. I wanted to find out how 4 screen next to eachother look so I tool a steel-bar and fitted them on it.

Because each of the terminals will need a network connection I need a switch with at least for ports. One more port will also be needed to connect it to another switch, router or hub. So I want out and bought a brand-new 5 port switch and connect it to the four screens and my internal network.

I quickly fitted it all toghether and tried to hide the cables as much as possible to get a feeling on the size and looks. Again, it is a bit rude, but it should give a general idea on how a photo frame with 3 or 4 screens next to each-other will look like.

Sorry for the poor quality, but this was quickly taken with my phone camera: