A browserless digital picture-frame with Rust, KMS/DRM and Alpine Linux

About a year ago I built a digital picture-frame out of an old Fire HD 10 tablet, Fully-Kiosk and Immich-Kiosk (post here). That lasted until the battery started to swell. I don’t want a puffy lithium cell charging 24/7 on my wall, and the tablet won’t run from the charger alone, so that was the end of iteration one. Iteration two: a normal monitor on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, still showing Immich-Kiosk in a browser. Worked fine for almost a year, then the SD card died. ...

2026-08-29

Building a DIY digital picture-frame with Immich-Kiosk and an old tablet

As a birthday-present for my wife I wanted to gift her a digital picture frame showing favourites from our Immich gallery. I had some unused old Fire HD 10 tablets laying around, so I wanted to use those. Required Old Tablet (e.g. old Fire HD 10 tablet) Off-the-shelf picture frame (e.g. Hama Bilderrahmen Rise, 20x30cm) 3D printed passepartout 3D printed picture frame stand Fully-Kiosk Android App Immich Instance running Immich-Kiosk Instance running (in my case installed on NixOS) 3D Printing Passepartout 3D Printed Passepartout ...

2025-09-14