The Steampunkers Box of Memories

Dear Sreampunkers, dear Friends

Do you have one of these ugly plastic electronic photo frames on your desk?
If yes - did you think to give it a new look? To make it "Steampunky"?
I would like to give you whit this instructable some inspirations how you coud convert such a TFT photo frame to a nice Steampunk Gadget.

Step 1: What do you need?

First of all you will need one of this TFT Photo Frames. I found an used one at home, a real ugly plastic one. It was running with an external power supply and there were some pink lines on the running screen. But I was inspired from this small piece of electronic and I had to pimp it, even it seemed to be damaged.

From a tabacco shop I had some nice old wooden boxes. The ones they use for the cigars from Cuba. They give me this boxes for free, because they sell the cigars by piece.

From the junk yard I got a brass fitting which I planned to use for the USB connector.

Because I wanted to use the USB power from the computer to run the frame I digged out an old USB cable. I collect this cables from the electronic trash, cut them off from old keyboards and so on... it's always good to have a stock of them...

Further I used a can of black color and some brass screws. The decoration on the top of the lid is from a gas valve and from a light bulb...

Comments

[TheOriginalCreator]

What did you scratch of on the lid?

[Purple Fire]

Super!!!

[gregorescu]

very, very cool, nice work!

[instructageek]

Thanks for the idea i made something just like it.

[thechocolatist]

Hey, a very nice box you made. It's great to see that I could give you some inspiration!!! Hope to see more of your work soon...

[paqrat]

This is way cool. Congratulations on an excellent instructable. The look of the finished item is fantastic.

[notimeoff]

Where did you get the graphic for the inside of the lid ?
can you post it ?

I love this, I am starting one this TODAY as a birthday gift for my aunt.

[spark master]

Some steam punk is pointless but cool looking, however useless. Some stuff might be useful. I think this is awesome actually. You can make interesting pics, (a la photoshop ) as well as other normal one and load them up. With a nice inside bezel it would be very very cool indeed. And make it with a creak as you open it up!

cool, verra vera cool

[mretuck]

Very, very nice!

[DougUnit12]

Nice job. Inspirational use of agreeably ugly production packaging to make something cool and unique!

[Junophor]

Dear Sir thechocolatist

Take a bow, and five stars too for this genius idea and work!!!!
I love this style.

Cheers Aeon Junophor

[millibot]

i like this very much, and the burning man photos seem perfect... i will have to give it a go :) thank you!

[Winged Fist]

A work of art work of framing... Oh, it is framed!;-) Great use of the cigar box, which looks much better stained, and the brass USB port and plug look awesome! 5 stars!