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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?"
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It's not a stupid question, just because to YOU it may be not worth the trouble/effort or within your expertise doesn't mean it isn't interesting to others. Obviously the screen does work, it was designed to show images when connected to the right sort of circuitry, so it's not alien science to be able to fix it up so it does something useful. Whether it's worthwhile is something only the individual concerned can answer, so no, the question won't die, because some people are more curious, interested and skilled than you are.
"because there it is again, the question that just won't DIE."
/. post that isn't of interest to you. Tied to every post are you? "Waste everyone's time" -- what a horrendous crock.
That's right, it won't die. So it's right to have it out in front here at slashdot. That spreads the clearly uncommon common knowledge, lets arrogant shits like you whine, and maybe even lets others rethink and suggest new things. Imagine that. Like the guy just below who pointed out the backlight makes a great lightbox. (thanks man!)
"waste everyone's time because they couldn't do a few simple searches and find the answer"
Good to hear there's no chance of new ideas anymore. It's all know, eh? And it's even better to hear how you're so oppressed that you can't skip a
Mod me troll but for chrissakes mod this idiot down from "3 informative".
I've fired people for installing WebShots at my old job. It is absolutely banned from my company machines. I should blackhole the domain at my dns servers, but that would take 30 seconds away from reading slashdot, and we wouldn't want that, right?
"Why do you consent to live in ignorance and fear?" - Bad Religion