LCD project

so i have acces to many LCD screens that are currently on old laptops. The math/computer teacher at my school has plenty of them. I was looking for sites with ideas and how to's for doing projects with these lcd screens. any sites/ideas?

It'll be a real challenge getting any sort of picture up on them. But if you do, I just love the idea of making a ghetto video projector...

http://www.diyprojectorcompany.com/

You'd probably be better off getting the laptops running again (you didn't say if they were damaged, just old) and selling them, or donating them to a nursing home or church or something.

Adrian wrote:

It'll be a real challenge getting any sort of picture up on them. But if you do, I just love the idea of making a ghetto video projector... http://www.diyprojectorcompany.com/

those are projectors though, I need something for lcd screens

here is an example of one of the screens

yea you want a tlt screen those are like ancient technology and they will be extra pixlated if you do get picture. their input isnt the same as a regular video input.
i tried it once.

in the next to last picture, you can see a bunch of old laptops, those are what would be used (IBM's) the one in the picture is a different brand, im not quite sure what kind.

So Rags- you say those are tlt?? I really know nothing about lcd screens, so please fill me in.

tlt is a kind of lcd screen, its the desirable kind for video feed and such and those arent them. i could be wrong on alot of this though.
your best bet is to get the broken ones cheap off ebay and fix them.

well, the reason that I was asking is because a teacher at my has them just sitting around, and told me I can have them if I want, so I was wondering if there was something cool that I could do for basically free with them.

hey if you do get those would u be willing to sell a few real cheap, hell I would be willing to try some **** out with them too lol

yeah, I could prob. sell them cheap, I'll check tom. What are you willing to pay, and how many?

I dunno I was just thinking about fooling with them like you just kinda interesting maybe $20 for 2 plus shipping costs I dunno u got em for free so u know, so if u want to talk lemme know MuStAnG4L1F3@hotmail.com

rags: did you mean TFT? Thats all I seem to find, no tlt?

could be, like i said i dont know a large amount on it. just did alittle research when my project didnt work

ok my vote... upgrade and make a carputer

ok, they are dual scan monitors, and for sale bigstang, ill send you a pm

Edit: PM sent

send me a pm to

I believe the old member Type R bass tried this and it was a mess and the end result would not be worth the hassle. But www.mp3car.com would be an awesome source for this post some photos with all the specs you can come up and see what you get for a response, they have been great to me in the past. Good Luck.

Losing quickly wrote:

Adrian wrote: It'll be a real challenge getting any sort of picture up on them. But if you do, I just love the idea of making a ghetto video projector... http://www.diyprojectorcompany.com/ those are projectors though, I need something for lcd screens

DIYProjectorCompany.com wrote:

A DIY Projector uses a small, bright, white light source, a transmissive LCD panel, and a large format objective lens to project a motion image from your DVD player, video game console, or cable box onto a projection screen. Image sizes range to nearly every end of the spectrum starting at about 40" and stretching to a typical 100" diagonal screen size, though technically you can go to an infinitely large projection size.

The project is based on LCD screens.

Think about the Overhead Projectors you see in class for projecting A4 transparencies... put an LCD screen on top instead and you get "the big picture".

I see......i might try to make one of those, one problem...these are laptop's, and i would have to figure out which wire is the video input, and make them RCA, or something like that

Edit: I checked their forum, and apparently laptop's are extremely hard to do, or I could use a $200 LCD controller, so I am probably going to scrap that idea

wow $200 for a controller to get video on the screens!? That is wayyy to much for me. If I wanted to spend a whole bunch of money, I would buy something that I know is going to work. Looks like I wont need to purchase them, but thanks anyways.