Jagged Alliance Themed Digital Picture Frame

Several weeks ago I came across some videos of a technique of spray painting camo pattern with leaves and branches and I wanted to try that out. I took the last Ikea frame I had lying around and just started spraying. After that, I did not know exactly what to display in that frame and so it just collected dust since then. A few days ago I remembered that I bought an old, really, really cheap digital picture frame on ebay.

Every now and then I play some Jagged Alliance and then the idea of displaying some characters in the frame came to my mind.

This is the short 'ible of how I put this together...

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Things I used for this project:

• Ikea picture frame
• Spray paint - I used brown, grey and black
• Strip of wood
• Digital picture frame
• Regular household tools
• and a printer

As mentioned above this was the first try of spray painting something with holding leaves between the object and the spay can. I think with different branches the result would be better, but for the first try and the purpose I am using it, the color palette and combination worked out fine.

To get the monitor inside the frame I had to remove its' casing by simply unscrewing every screw I could find. That left me with the monitor and the pcb. These together were flat enough to fit in the frame.

I sawed two strips of wood which fit inside the spacer and glued the monitor to the sticks and the sticks to the spacer.

Since the opening in the original passepartout was too big for the screen I took a sheet of thin cardboard and cut a new one. But just the white paper around the monitor looked boring, so I printed out a part of the map of Metavira and with some spray adhesive I glued it to the cardboard.

Before the final assembly, I took some screenshots of the characters of the game and cropped them to size, saved these to the sd-card and everything was ready for putting together.

If you power the frame up, every 10 seconds a random face appears in the middle of the map.

Thank you for taking the time reading this short story of a project you can do without fancy tools or skills.