Well I decided to start a little project PC for mainly music. I'm working with the LCD screen now and I'm not too familiar with how they interface to a standard VGA plug on a video card. Here is the VGA standoff on the LCD display's board. I need to find an adapter to turn that into a standard VGA plug that would connect to the video card. Any takers?
I don't know what that is, but it's far from VGA. It's not even going to be analog. Probably LVDS or some variant... The only way to adapt VGA to that is with some very complex circuitry. Look online for specs on that LCD, maybe you can find a video card for it. It's hard to say. You're probably better off getting a small LCD unit which takes a composite or S-video video input (which anything with TV out can connect to), or whatever you can find that's analog. There are also SBCs and small form factor motherboards with LVDS outputs, but they're all pretty spendy
Yeah I figured it was a waste of time, but I'm still new to destroying tinkering with LCD screens so I figured I'd ask someone who modded often. Google searches turned up a bunch of dead ends.
Ah well, I'll just buy an el cheapo small one and hang it on the wall.
Yeah you bet. I might get one of those big picture frames that have places for many different sized indivisual pictures and cut one of them the size of the LCD. Then have the screen saver cycle through the My Pictures folder. Dunno yet though, the frame has to be big enough to cram all of the electronics into.
Nice work man, I'm a supervisor at a small wood cnc shop and we also have a couple wood powder coat lines. Depending on the depth that would be needed for the electronics, I could probably make a frame from mdf and have it powdercoated to look real nice. I'd need some detailed pics and dimensions of course.Let me know if your interested.
An 8 dollar frame, a few hours work and 300 zip ties later: Ghetto Completion.
I'm going to polish it off with some stain and some better feet besides screws when I have more time, but for now you get the general idea. Not bad even if it is a little ghetto.
Xamindar wrote:I'm curious, how in the world did you hook up that strange connector to a video card? Can you explain that? Quite interesting. Good job!
There is actually a controller board that the odd plug attaches to then it converts the signal to VGA.
