Help wiring a laptop's LCD display?
Greetings all!
I had the pleasure of demo-ing an HP Pavilion laptop computer for any and all scrappable parts today. Fun enough in itself, but now come the real questions that I don't have the answers to. What to do with many of the working pieces. The LCD display, in particular.
Some information that may be useful here:
HP Pavilion dv6227d Entertainment Notebook PC
There are many tags on the display itself, but I think this is the manufacturer:
AU Optronics B154EW04 V.2
I'm curious if anyone has done any projects involving displays such as this, and if so, what the application was, how it was wired, etc. It's so light and thin, I'd just hate to see this thing go to waste or end up sitting in my parts bin. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I've gone through a move, and managed to keep it in one piece. It's a sign!
Say you have a broken main board. You will need to work out what components on that board are driving the screen. Other then the GPU. Then hope that the driver chips being used are chips that are easily sourced. Chances are they are custom chips produced specifically for HP and programed with HP proprietary firmware.
Lets just say you can get all the components. Now you need specialized equipment to see through the multiple layers of the board and follow the traces from one component to another to work out the schematic and make your own board.
If you have a working main board and can work out which circuits on the board control the screen then you should be able to figure out a way to hack it. Or just attach that main board to the back of the screen and more on. But that takes away from how thin and light the screen is.
I certainly don't have $200 to spare, and DEF don't have the know-how to reverse-engineer any proprietary electronics/driver complications. Thanks for the feedback, my friends.
Think outside the box.. ...
We have "picture frame"
Some suggestions here
Maybe a mirror?
etc & etc.