Omarchy Linux running natively on a $50 digital photo frame: Allwinner A33, 1GB RAM, Hyprland boots

gregmushen · x · 2026-10-13

Inspired by Wes Bos's photo-frame project, a hacker got DHH's Omarchy (an Arch Linux setup) running natively on a $50 digital photo frame:

• Hardware: Allwinner A33, 1GB RAM, Mali-400 GPU, Arch Linux ARM booted from microSD with the original eMMC untouched.
• The grind: custom SD boot path, porting Omarchy to armv7, fixing display/touch rotation, bringing up the AIC8800 Wi-Fi driver, and manually enabling the UART Bluetooth controller for BlueZ.
• Result: boots straight into Hyprland/Omarchy with touch, on-screen keyboard, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth LE mouse/keyboard working.

Greg Mushen shared it with a joke: if his agents don't cool it, plan B is building a cluster of these frames.

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