First off, this is not a "can I use a laptop screen with a PC" question...as I was searching the forums I saw that a hundred times... I've got my hands on a very cheap laptop (£50), fully operational but not exactly powerful, lets use the word functional. Now what I'd ideally like to do is strap a couple of light traps to it (my housemate is working on those, hes a clever chap) and stick it in my foosball table. What I'd really like to do is have the screen separated from the main body and slung on the inside under the pitch, so you could see the display on the pitch as you played, then have the keyboard/main area in the main base. That way you could have a score counter/shot speeds displayed real time on the pitch (I'm the first to admit I'm both sad, and take foosball far too seriously...) Is it possible, and how easy is it, to remove a laptop screen and have it on a longer wire to the main body? I'd like about 75cm - 1m of wire, but if needs must I could do this by having the screen on the bottom of the PC facing out (like if you'd flipped the screen all the way back and round). Cheers for any help in advance... BC
Gonna be pretty hard to make cable longer. Flipping it round with existing cable is probably better ie easier and cheaper.
It would be possible though, you would need a very fine 5w soldering iron, a discecting microscope (for stereo vision), some fine solder, a steady hand, or some manipulators, and a whole bunch of thin, high quality wire (like 24ga stranded wire from cat5) Very labor intensive, though possible. Also, ruining the laptop would be a very real possibility.
in the us digikey sells the flat flex cables you would need in that kind of length they should just plug right in
So its not easy then...shame. One I get my hands on it I shall study the cable and see if I can find any in the UK that could be patched into it, otherwise I shall have to come up with something else...
I'm sure the cable has enough play to be flipped back against the bottom of the laptop, then just extend the ports to where you need them.
There is a standard signaling method used for LCDs, LVDS. It is also usedin SCSI and gets 12 meters there IIRC, so I think you'll be fine.
