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LCD Questions
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:27 pm
by JMEaT
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?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:24 am
by pATCheS
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
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:54 am
by JMEaT
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:20 pm
by JMEaT
Well I was digging around in my old closet over @ my mom's house (My other location for my Old Pile of Crap ©) and came across some spare parts and what do ya know, I got this little LCD running @ 800x600x32. Now it is picture frame time!
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:54 pm
by Mobius
Nice work man.
Thumbs up.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:22 pm
by roid
ooo great mate! can you show us how it goes? coz this kindof stuff is real interesting hey.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:21 am
by JMEaT
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:42 am
by Top Gun
Someone did something similar to this in a recent issue of Popular Science, I believe. The end result is pretty cool.
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:34 am
by JMEaT
Top Gun wrote:Someone did something similar to this in a recent issue of Popular Science, I believe. The end result is pretty cool.
Oh yeah? I don't suppose you got linkage so I can
copy admire his work?
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:06 am
by Top Gun
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:07 am
by JMEaT
Hmm, not quite what I had in mind. Thanks for the linky.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:29 am
by roid
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:09 pm
by Bonz
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:44 pm
by JMEaT
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:58 pm
by Bonz
heh not bad at all, nice work
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:12 pm
by Xamindar
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!
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:26 pm
by MD-2389
Xamidar: He probably googled up the data sheets on the monitor and went from there.
J: Nice work man, I'm seriously impressed. Now all thats missing is a pair of fuzzy dice.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:39 am
by JMEaT
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.
