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There are a lot of people with old tablets in a drawer.. it'd be nice if there was a way to re-purpose those old screens many of which are good quality (e.g. Ip
by Sunspark 6y ago
There are a lot of people with old tablets in a drawer.. it'd be nice if there was a way to re-purpose those old screens many of which are good quality (e.g. Ipad 2, HP Touchpad, etc). So a new shell would be needed, the new PCB, likely the new battery, so the only real hard part would be the interface between the pi and the screen.
- meatmanek 6y agoIf you just want to reuse the screen, you can get boards on Ebay or AliExpress that have HDMI inputs and can drive original iPad screens. Search for "LVDS HDMI" and you'll find a bunch, mostly based around the RTD2660 chip from Realtek.