Kindle Photoframe

This post has two purposes. First to write about a digital photoframe that I made from an old Kindle. Second, more importantly, is to kickstart my #100DaysToOffload journey. I want to take up the 100 days challenge since I feel I am not super fluent in writing something even after writing decent amount of posts.

So I have a base Kindle from 2016 that is still in working condition. While I can still read on it, I have now switched to Supernote for digital reading. The obvious thing to do with the device was to jailbreak it and use as a photoframe.

Figure 1: The photoframe with a really dark bw photo of my cat sitting on my desk. Along with a slightly better view of my cat actually sitting on the desk.

The jailbreaking process was more painful than I thought, but it was just a process. For the physical framing I didn't do anything fancy. I just got a cheap photoframe online, pushed the Kindle in the back, and supported it with a few velcro tapes.

Every month or so, whenever the battery is down, I take the tape out, charge the device, and put it back in. At the same time I also change the photo since I get access to the USB slot.

I would like to hack it further and let the OS wake up and pull images from the network. But that's for some other time.