Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I made a solar-powered, ePaper photo frame
Looks like this year ePaper projects have been popping around[1], so this is mine. I made a photo frame with the intention of having a record of my family's history that can potentially outlive me. Knowing the challenges of long-lived digital projects, I consider this a moving target that will go through several iterations, but the first version showed encouraging results. I wonder if anyone else is interested in having something like that in their living rooms. More details:…
This is a solar-powered photo frame using ePaper technology designed to display family photos as a long-term digital archive. The maker built it to create a durable record of family history that could potentially… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites. I made a solar-powered, ePaper photo frame launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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This is version 2 of my ongoing heirloom device project, a digital photo frame built with the goal of lasting longer than your typical gadget. There's a part of me that wishes to commercialize a polished version of this product, but the more I speak to people, the more I become convinced that I belong to a very small minority.
2023 · jamez.it · its alternatives →
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Recently, we wanted to find a way to display Generative AI art in our office at Photoroom.
2023 · eliot.blog · its alternatives →
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Getting your photos back into your life.
2017 · auraframes.com · its alternatives →
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E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · blog.framelabs.eu · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! A few years ago someone kept trying to steal my motorcycle, so I decided to make a small camera with really long battery life to catch them. The hardware/software is totally open source, but the companion app only supports macOS currently. (I'm a big fan of native apps, and didn't want to block releasing on Linux/Windows support.) I wrote some blog posts about the process: PCB design: https://toaster.llc/blog/pcb Enclosure design: https://toaster.llc/blog/enclosure Image pipeline:…
2024 · toaster.llc · its alternatives →
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A hobby project of mine that was surprisingly easy to put together! I love waking up and seeing the freshly generated image.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Node.js library for easily creating an ePaper display on a Raspberry PI using HTML and Javascript. - samsonmking/epaper.js
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Living Images▲588Optimize your images with generative A/B testing
2024 · img.coframe.ai · its alternatives →
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Send Christmas eCards containing "living photos"
2016 · kataloop.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I quit my job two years ago to have more time to work on my side projects. The main one is an automated solar concentrator. I've just open-sourced it, it's not perfect nor finished, and I still have a lot of ideas for further development, but I'm interested in knowing what you think of it. There are many applications where concentrated solar power could be a viable environmental and economic solution, I hope this technology will one day be more widely used. Feel free to give any feedback and ask questions.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Datafilm▲84Frames is a simple app for analog film photographers to log shot details like camera, lens, film stock, exposure settings, and notes while shooting. Later, it can embed this metadata into scanned JPEGs to keep the technical and creative context of each frame. The iPhone app lets you record notes in the field, and the companion Mac app helps attach metadata to your digital scans. There's no cloud storage — everything stays local. The iPhone app is free, and the Mac app has a 7-day trial. I built Frames because I wanted a lightweight, privacy-first tool to bridge the gap between analog…
2021 · withframes.com · its alternatives →
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A high-performance solar phone charger
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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I built a digital photo frame, from my a-decade-old tablet, running android 4.4.4. It cycles through photos from a shared Google Photos album, switching up the display every hour.
2024 · pankajtanwar.in · its alternatives →
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Leading provider of sustainable digital signage. Visionect offers premium e-paper displays and solutions that are energy-efficient and elegant.
2014 · visionect.com · its alternatives →
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Shelf-Life▲80Liven up your home page by adding little pixel-art objects
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I made a desktop e paper display to show my calendar and to-do list to help keep me organized in college. Full source code available here: https://github.com/jaeheonshim/inky-dashboard The display is only awoken from deep sleep mode every 30 minutes to update the information, allowing the frame to be fully battery powered. You can link your Todoist for the to-do items on the left, and you can link any calendar in iCal format (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc.) for the calendar on the right. The code can be fully customized to display just the calendar, just the to-do list,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Power earthquake recovery in Nepal with solar.
2015 · sunfarmer.org · its alternatives →
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Re-Frame▲65Up-cycle your old iPad to a beautiful digital picture frame
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Magically Expose Photos
2025 · pictopocket.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built FamilyMemories (https://familymemories.video) to solve a personal problem: I had hundreds of old family photos sitting in a digital folder, forgotten. I wanted a way to make them "alive" again without manual video editing. The tool uses AI to generate a 5-second cinematic motion from a single static image. It’s optimized for vintage photos (sepia, B&W, polaroids).
Feb 2026 · familymemories.video · its alternatives →
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