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Making Use Of Old LCDs?
phorm writes "Not so long ago, higher-definition LCD's used to be quite hard to come by, with laptops and other hardware tending to use old non-TFT-style LCD's which ugly bleeding colors and poor refresh. Nowadays, almost everything has a nice TFT (Thin-film-transistor) display, including laptops, PDA's, digital camera, and often even cellphones. However, not all of these devices are as dependable as they once were, and many of them end up as little more than paperweights. With TFT-LCD's by themselves still being somewhat of a pricey commodity, is there any way to salvage and use these parts for home projects? I personally have an 8" notebook display, and a 1.5" digital camera LCD which are just begging to be recycled as something useful such as a projector component, status display, or something else useful. So far I've had little luck discovering a way to get these components to work outside of the original hardware, so I was wondering if any enterprising hardware-nerds on Slashdot have had better luck than I and could offer a few pointers. Are these components doomed to end up in a landfill, or can somebody offer a way to make them useful again?"
how does your suggestion have anything to do with recycling old LCDs? you clod
welcome to slashdot, where the lunatics run the asylum
I have an 8" porn producer...in my pants!!
Really? Can I see? =]
bork bork bork!
Yeah, I wasn't entirely serious with that post. Slashdot, if nothing else, at least groups various "conversations" together for easy reading in a somewhat-coherent fashion. Although, if the mods aren't interested in a conversation it magically becomes off-topic, but that's a side issue if you give off-topic posts a modifier or something.
True story.
That's the nice thing about the point system here, you can read at whatever level you want. I've been reading at -1 for at least a year and wouldn't have it any other way...the offtopic posts are often some of the most interesting and the trolls are usually a lot funnier than half the shit that gets modded "Funny"