Sweeeet... now what the hell do I do with it?

Mike Lewis · 2005-05-30T15:35:54

I recently acquired a Sharp 4LU4EB LCD panel. It's basically as cool as all get out and was definitely worth the pittance I paid for it. Now, the question is, what do I do with it? I have no idea what to use it for (and, naturally, my geekness demands that I do in fact use it for something) and even if I knew what to do with it I wouldn't know how to go about actually doing it. I assume I'd need some kind of controller PIC to actually send signal data to it... y'know, so it'll actually display stuff. However, my ten minutes on Google extensive research hasn't provided any clues as to how to rig up such a controller or where to get the parts for it. It also doesn't solve the problem of what to use the thing for in the first place. So, for lack of sanity, I turn to the ever-resourceful lounge community to give me some advice and direction on my noble quest. At the very least it should be good for a couple of laughs.

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Started by ApochPiQ May 30, 2005 12:26 AM

15 comments, last by ApochPiQ 18 years, 10 months ago

Promit

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May 30, 2005 09:35 AM

I think the most ideal thing to do would be to grab a NanoITX board, hook it up to the monitor, put the entire thing in a display box with a window that you can hang on the wall, and write a program to do a full screen slideshow...in other words, create an electronic picture thing.

That's what we did with the semi broken and very old mac laptop my friend got, at least. NanoITX isn't actually available yet, so you'll need to find something which doesn't really need cooling if you're going to do this.

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Xiachunyi

556

May 30, 2005 09:39 AM

Maybe these people will have information about interfacing it.

boolean

1,830

May 30, 2005 09:45 AM

Quote:Original post by Ainokea
WWDD? (What would doogle do?)

Punch it in it's face(display)!

TEH WINNAR IS YUO!!!!!!

ScootA

270

May 30, 2005 11:27 AM

Take the back off (and the backlight), acquire one of those overhead projectors (like you had in school), attach your LCD over the light and bingo, you have yourself an LCD projector to watch 10-foot high porn on :)

-Scoot

ApochPiQ

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May 30, 2005 02:12 PM

Actually, I've already got an LCD projector - full screen is 84 inches (exactly 7 foot) at the moment since that's all I can fit on the wall in my apartment. It's teh pwnment.

Anyways, I guess I'll keep looking for good info on this thing. Thanks for the suggestions... well, some of them.

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kwijibo

169

May 30, 2005 02:32 PM

That lcd would be freakin' sweet if you ever decide to portable-ise a games console. How much did you pay for it?

ApochPiQ

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May 30, 2005 03:35 PM

$20 US. It's not that sweet - it's just a black and white display as near as I can tell. Still, it's a cold-cathode backlit LCD, and that's pretty damn cool.

The best thing I can think of to do with it is build myself a really, really simple little console and maybe code up a couple games for it... but that's going to require being able to get a signal to the display first.

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