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Monitor from a broken laptop :D

03/08/18(Fri)09:55

I received an old laptop recently that had a dead motherboard. It was worth repairing so I stripped it for parts. I bought an LCD control module from China for £18 and made a stand to create this minimalist monitor :D

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header=[Image Viewer] body=[The image viewer allows you to view the image full screen. You can also use the image viewer to zoom in or out.<br/>Instructions:<br/>Once the viewer is open you will see the image adjusted to your screen size. To close the image us the X button top right or left click on the image, double left click to close in zoom mode. To use the zoom feature us the zoom button top left. In zoom mode the bottom right of your screen will show an indicator of what part of the image you can see. You can use the scroll wheel of your mouse to zoom in and out. You can click and hold the left mouse button on the image and drag it to move the viewer around the zoomed image if it is larger than the screen size. You can exit zoom mode by clicking the zoom button top left to exit it, or exit the viewer completely with a double left click.]

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04/08/18(Sat)21:53

Comment No.34770

The true Scrapheap Challenger, lol.

04/08/18(Sat)10:18

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>>34765 I just don't like things to go to waste :D

I also saved the DVD-RW drive and bought a usb cable so I can use that, the hdd which is only 320Gb but will be a useful spare, the keyboard, although it's not much use really, the touch pad which can pretty easily be used as a usb/ps2 mouse device and the battery which I plan to use to make a little UPS with for the raspi server.

03/08/18(Fri)21:55

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Nice work, dude. You are truly a wizard with electronics!

03/08/18(Fri)10:00

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This is the LCD control board.

03/08/18(Fri)09:57

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The LCD control module has plenty of inputs and it's own menu system to control all the usual things.

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