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NEW 10.3" LCD screen for $15 Hot? (replace IOpener screen)

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I'm looking to build a small video capture system to sit next to my Video gears and this would be a great addition if we can find a way to use it. I'd just mount it to the side of a case. Please let me know if anyone find a way to use this.

Thanks
 
The price is so good on this thing that I might just snap one up, in hopes of someone figuring out what we can do with this.

There was another website that managed something like this with a discounted small LCD color display (like 6" or something), I forgot the company or website, but they had all the hacks to it on their website.. something like www.eos.com, or www.E0something.com, I lost the bookmark during my last system upgrade, rats, I am sure I could have posted about this there and gotten the ball rolling..

 
I bought one.
It's should give me something to do for a few days.
A good toy to tinker with.

We should keep bumping this post so that someone will eventually post
a diagram to hook up this thing.

If we figure out a use for this, this will be a real hot deal.

bump
 
This just looks like a standard laptop replacement screen, you can find em cheaper on eBay. Plus, if you want to use this on something other than an HP Omnibook, you need order a custom display card which can easily run $99+. It's also only 640x480 and most likely not TFT.
Not work wasting time.
 
If somebody knows where to get the video adapter that will work with this please pm me or post it here.

I would have interest in altering a case (desktop) to mount this on the side (or as part of the side) to use as a server, router, etc. That way it would only take up as much space as the footprint on the desk.
 
Same here. If someone knows how to wire these up to a DVI connector, PM or email me please.

I'll have to order a couple to play with and HOPEFULLY use with my Radeon 8500 or my wife's 7500.
 
yes, as I mentioned in the original post...people got TONS of diagrams and pin outs for the i-opener screen. Yeah...its STN..and 640x480. But for 15 bucks? Quite a deal
 
I bet this thing will take a LOT of custom home-built hardware to make it work with anything other than an Omnibook.
Custom hardware, software, and firmware.
 
I did a search on ebay for "agp lcd" and came up with a couple of adapter type things. I'm not sure if they would work with this... Anybody know?
 
the best this would be for is "rca" input, compiste type, great for cars, ps or vcr or dvd input,unles using his for a direct replace,ent youll be beating a brick wall, but for cars awsome deal, if somone can find voltage in put, video in and is it backlit?
 
I'm assuming this wouldn't work without some kind of video card... so you wouldn't be able to directly connect this screen to some component with a video out signal even if we figure out the pin outs?
 
I hope you guys know what you guys are doing. My friend spend 4 months on a project similiar to this for their senior design. They tried to reverse engineer a screen from a 5" color TV to connect it to a laptop. It was more than they asked....they ended up writing a proprietory driver for the screen. For those 4 months, I saw them spending a month on the oscilliscope trying to figure out which signal is which. For those of you guys think you are up for the challenge, keep me update! I am very interested at this project as well, but don't have the time to work on it. It's more than just trying to figure out the signals.....
 
NO!! Wait!!

This is just the LCD screen...you need a controller to do most of what you guys are proposing. A 'pinout' won't help you. Unless maybe you want to use it to replace a screen from some other manufacturer's notebook.

THAT's the most expensive part!! The only place I know of to get a compatible controller is www.earthlcd.com and the cheapest is $200

Save your money. You can also find lots of similar parts to this one on ebay.

But then, if anyone finds cheap controllers (or possibly some good schematics?), please let me know🙂
 
i agree with saurk...everyone who is jumping on this because its 'ohhh a cheap lcd!' is going to be very disappointed and 25 bucks poorer when they receive their screen. just my opinion though...if you're extremely skilled in electronics and want to try a tough project or if u actually need this for a replacement screen then go for it!

-jon
 
Saurk is completly right. The controller you need is very epensive. Luckilly I found one of these at a computer show for $40 with a 10.4" screen. Looking to get this though, mine right now has a small scratch on it. If you are going to make the investment for a controller card(you can find for ~$100 or less even) just spend the extra few bucks and get a tft screen. You cant even imagine the diffrence.
 
If indeed this is an iopener screen:

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<< The correct answer is yes, you can use it. However, there are some hurdles. You must have either a video card that has a 16bit dstn cmos output or a video card with a dfp port (the radeon dual head has this) with the 16bit cmos output, you'll need the pinout for the card and for the screen. for the dfp port, you'll need a SIL141(or similar) demultiplexer, and the piouts for the screen.

In both cases, you'll also need a power source for the display.

If you were REALLY bored, and had the technical expertise, you could hook up the entire thing to a PC parallel port or even a USB port, but that would be somewhat difficult.
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<< Wild_pencil hit it right on.. though actually it's shouldn't be THAT bad.. the USB would be the easier of the two.. get an external usb->ide enclosure (which is really an addressable buffer: at least the one I have that was intended for a USB cdrom) it gives you (essentially) a 16bit IO port over USB. The SIL140 transmitters can be used 16 bit, and I'm just realising that you'd need a clock as well. If you could find some source code for a generic video card, you could simulate all of the video functions on the computer side, and just send the output to the SIL140 over the usb. This would allow you to hook up virtually any flat panel display, and even a regular monitor over the USB port.. Note that there would be a limitation on exactly how large a resolution you could use. 800x600 in 16 bit color would require a 57.6MB/s(800(v)x600(h)x16(bit)x60(fps)/8(bits/byte)) channel, far beyond USB1.1 capacity. 640xx480 at 16 bit color would need a 36.9MB/s channel. Fortunately with an LCD like the IO you could reduce the number of frames per second quite drastically say to 15 wiythout much real loss. that would still need 14.4MB/S.. still beyond the USB capability.. but if you went even further to cut back to a display useful for only static imagery, you could get by with a pulse of 960K every time you sent an update. I really don't know how well an LCD will retain it's image if it isn't refreshed, but if the clock isn't runnign then I doubt there's a problem.. if you did need anything like that then you'd be talking extra hardware..
and if you're talking extra hardware, why not just hook up a 16 bit video card? find a basic ISA card/chip set up a latch to switch between addresses and data, and off you go..
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