Comments | qwantz: I CAN SEE YOU

qwantz

I CAN SEE YOU

Dec 31, 2008 13:55

I got a wireless picture frame for Christmas, as part of my ultimate plan to have Project Wonderful's status be displayed on the wall. But while I'm scripting that up, I've set it up so that everything on Flickr tagged "qwantzparty" gets shown in my living room. I know they're the same pictures that I can see online, but there's something pretty ( Read more... )

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daleof December 31 2008, 19:00:27 UTC

I cheated a lil' considering mine's not anything to do with dinosaur comics but I'll take it down tomorrow.

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qwantz December 31 2008, 19:08:53 UTC

haha, it just showed up as I was reading this email! AWESOME

daleof January 1 2009, 19:52:20 UTC

Hooray!

professor December 31 2008, 19:07:49 UTC

I predict that you're going to get a lot of groupies taking pictures of themselves flashing you. I hope you (or more importantly, your girl) like naked boobs.

qwantz December 31 2008, 19:09:03 UTC

Who DOESN'T

homericlaughter December 31 2008, 19:15:04 UTC

This idea has like... 10 elements of danger to it. And an atomic number of Peril.

qwantz December 31 2008, 19:17:37 UTC

I live on the edge!

nickmurdoch December 31 2008, 19:53:25 UTC

That's the first use I've seen for a electronic picture frame that actually makes me want one.

How does scripting for it work? Do you send it updated images, or point it at an automatically-updated image on a server, or something else?

jayp39 December 31 2008, 20:07:57 UTC

I, too, would like to know this information. I did not think digital picture frames were this sophisticated.

qwantz December 31 2008, 20:19:43 UTC

What it does is use the fact that Flickr will give you an RSS feed for any tag search, and then it uses that to give you updating images! So that's awesome. And you can use any RSS feed in a particular "media RSS" format, which I've never heard of before but I believe means "RSS and all you publish is a JPG file".

The frame itself is pretty cool but only reads jpg and has a few other weird limitations, so the future isn't here yet, but I'm convinced it could be just a firmware upgrade away.

jarodrussell December 31 2008, 20:57:55 UTC

You could always just run the picture through an online converter, then the future is just a PHP script away. :)

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snowmit December 31 2008, 19:58:16 UTC

Tell me you are coming to Sharkey's.

Tell me you are bringing this frame.

TELL YOUR FANS THIS IS YOUR PLAN

qwantz December 31 2008, 20:20:11 UTC

Unfortunately Jenn and I just got in and will probably be spending the night in! LAME

But - but but, it will certainly be making an appearance in the FUTURE

snowmit December 31 2008, 20:48:32 UTC

Dammit Ryan, NYE is like 8 hours away. HAVE A NAP AND MAN UP