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Disposable computing is here at last.
by chaosmachine 16y ago
Disposable computing is here at last.
- r0s 16y agoI tend to put laptops in this category. Like any good nerd I spent countless hours trying to figure a way to remove and use the screen on one of the broken laptops piled up in my closet. There's no good reason for that level of waste.
- weaksauce 16y agoany success on that project?
- brk 16y agoNobody has ever really had success with that sort of project, though I've been reading about people trying for the last 10 years or so. Earth LCD is your best resource for LCD hackery. They have a controller kit that will drive certain LCD panels. It's $200 and will drive a panel at a rez up to 1024x768 http://store.earthlcd.com/NK-GM2221-421-LCD-Controller-KIt?sc=7&category=99 http://store.earthlcd.com/NK-GM2221-421-LCD-Controller-KIt?s... By contrast, I just bought a brand new 32" TV at Best Buy for a demo monitor. It was $450 and does 1920x1080. Laptop LCDs use a variety of different interfaces, so it's hard to make a generic kit. By the time you do, the volume demand for such a kit is so low, you end up with having to price it in the $200-$300 dollar range to make your R&D and manufacturing costs back. For about the same money you can get an LCD monitor of similar size/resolution to the laptop display in an easy ready-to-use package.
- r0s 16y agobrk sums it up. It's one reason I don't like laptops in general. Tossing those perfectly usable screens attached to a faulty motherboard is pretty distasteful.
- gommm 16y agoFor me it's always been the screen that died first...
- nowarninglabel 16y agoYou could put them on Craigslist or Ebay. I've bought two LCDs that way in order to repair other laptops of the same model with broken screens.