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Consumer electronics lose their value very quickly, with depreciation curves that rival those of luxury cars. Your $600 laptop is going to be bordering on worthless within five years, which means many of us end up with old laptops that aren’t worth selling — but which we can’t stomach just giving away for recycling. Fortunately, while your old laptop may not have any value to other people, it does contain a number of components that you can use in your projects. That’s how Neil Shepherd obtained the 17” LCD panel that he used to buildthe fantastic Raspberry Pine desktop computer.

As you’d expect from the pun of a name, this Raspberry Pine computer contains a Raspberry Pi. Specifically, Shepherd used a Pi 3 Model B+, but he may upgrade that to the Pi 4 once it is updated to allow booting from USB. The frame of the computer is, of course, made from pine wood that Shepherd cut and assembled himself. The design is what I’d call “traditional” and would look at home in an old fashioned study. It certainly has more charm than hundreds of indistinguishable generic LCD models that are currently on the market.

The LCD panel is paired with a driver board that can accept input via HDMI, DVI, or VGA. In this case, it’s connected to the Raspberry Pi via HDMI. Power is coming from the laptop’s original power brick, which puts out 19.5 V at 4.5 A. Two DFRobot PSU boards are used to drop that down to the 5 V required for the Raspberry Pi and the 12 V required for the LCD panel and driver board. It can also be powered from a trio of li-ion battery cells through a BMS (Battery Management System) board. All of those components are attached to an acrylic panel that is mounted on the back of the pine wood frame. Shepherd is also working on a matching keyboard, which will connect the original laptop keyboard to the Raspberry Pi through an Arduino Due.

Mentioning 40pin is meaningless; with 40pin you can have a DPI, MIPI, LVDS or eDP interface (this iPex connector is used for eDP quite often, but can be used for all types of interface listed) --> nobody will be able to help you without knowing more details.

As outlined in step -II, LCD controller kit contains the controller board the inverter and the LVDS cable, so before we begin our installation of components, lets look into the working of LCD

An LCD (liquid crystal display) panel uses multiple components to create the image you see on the screen. The liquid crystals are arranged in a layer near the front of the screen. As the crystals rapidly change color, they create an image. This image would not be viewable, however, without a backlight. The backlight is located behind the crystal layer and shines through the crystals to provide enough light for the users to see the image.

The backlight of an LCD screen, requires AC power rather than the DC power provided by the laptop’s power supply. This is where the inverter comes in. The inverter converts the DC (direct current) that comes from the laptop’s power supply to the AC (alternating current) that is needed for the backlight of the LCD screen.

Conveniently connect your raspberry pi and store it within the storage compartment. Easily access all the USB and Ethernet ports and if you wish to tinker with the GPIO pins just pop up the lid and access the Raspberry pi board ( sold separately)

The PiDock 400 is the perfect laptop style dock with built in keyboard for your Raspberry Pi 400. The Pidock features an internal board that powers the built in display and the older, BCM Mouse connection from a raspberry pi to make it work like a full computer, including its own working mousepad!

It also comes with cables to connect to other external devices; such as input devices or output devices. This raspberry pi laptop kit Connected cables can be used for power-in [from outlets], RPI-Mouse [to cursor movement on monitor], HDMI distribution toward TV set (or other monitors), and USB-C Power Distribution Upstream toward multiple USB charging sources (on desk). This device will give you an edge toward building up any type of digital control

The PiDock 400 is a raspberry pi 400 personal computer kit Laptop Style Dock and Display created for a Raspberry Pi 400. The Pidock raspberry pi laptop case for the Pi 400 which features an internal board that powers the built in display and the Pi 400 keyboard.

It also makes the Power & HDMI connection from the monitor to the Pi 400 keyboard and features a built in mousepad that connects to the Pi400 Via a included easy to connect cable.

To set up the PiDock 400 you connect the included power supply to an outlet and you then use the included USB, USB-C & HDMI Cables to connect between the PiDock"s built in HDMI, USB power out & Mousepad USB cable to the Pi 400 Keyboards HDMI, USB-C power in and USB input ports and you will be up and running.

It"s like a raspberry pi 4 laptop Featuring a quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB of RAM, wireless networking, dual-display output, and 4K video playback, as well as a 40-pin GPIO header, Raspberry Pi 400 is a powerful, easy-to-use computer built into a neat and portable compact keyboard.

Raspberry Pi 400 incorporates a purpose-built board based on Raspberry Pi 4. Featuring the same powerful processor, Raspberry Pi 400 has specially designed thermals to keep your rpi laptop like computer cool and silent while you’re hard at work.

The GPIO pins remain accessible, so if you want to explore beyond the desktop, you can connect components and prototype your projects. You can also use micro hdmi to hdmi, Microsd card slot, mouse power supply, mobile computing programs, micro hdmi ports, keyboard layouts, and much more with this complete personal computer built with raspberry pi os.

I picked up this monitor to turn my Raspberry Pi 3 into an all-in-one computer. Since this screen is a touchscreen, it turns my Pi into a tablet type computer. It won"t replace an iPad or an Android tablet, but it works well for places where you use a Pi to control something and want a touchscreen for basic functions.

You also need to understand that this monitor has exposed electronics and no enclosure for the Pi. So you"ll need to mount it somewhere that protects the electronics or make your own case. I will probably design and 3D print a custom case.

The monitor comes with everything you need to get an older Pi mounting and functioning. You mount the Pi on the back of the monitor with 4 screws (provided) and use 4 nuts as spacers (nuts are also provided). Look at how the monitor control board is mounted and use the same method for the Pi. It comes with an HDMI to HDMI cable that goes from the monitor to the Pi. If you have a Pi 4, you need an adapter or a different cable because the Pi 4 has two Micro HDMI ports. The monitor also comes with a MicroUSB to USB A cable. That goes from the monitor to one of the USB ports on the Pi. The Pi provides power to the monitor through that USB port and it receives the inputs from the touchscreen through that same cable. The cables are too long when using the Pi mounted on the back and you have a lot of excess cable. The extra length would be useful if you were using a different computer.

While this monitor works great for a Pi, it would not be great on a Windows computer. I"m sure it will work, but it"s too small and low resolution for most Windows apps.

The second thing to do is to set the Pi to use the native resolution of the monitor. I believe it defaults to 1920x1080. Everything looks slightly grainy and stretched. To set the Pi to 1024x600, you need to edit the /boot/config.txt file and make a few changes. Here are the lines I added:

The manual that came with it states the monitor needs 5V at 2A. Since the only way to power it is off the USB port, it"s not going to get 2A. Most USB ports only put our 0.5A to 0.9A. It seems to run fine powered off the Pi USB port, so it must not really need 2A.

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When I first started with DIY audio, I had to use the desk in my garden shed/office for projects. This was never ideal as I frequently work from home for my job at this desk and had to keep packing equipment and components away. After Idiot Child No.2 left home, I moved my electronics to a desk in her old room. Whilst this is a considerable improvement, there is one aspect that is less than satisfactory, and that is a lack of space for my laptop. If I have the laptop out on the desk there is little room for anything else, but I find I often need to refer to material, e.g. datasheets, build information, component suppliers websites and so on, when I’m working on a project. I tried using my tablet but the screen size was a limitation and I prefer using a keyboard and mouse. I started thinking of a way round this and decided a small computer that I could put on my little HiFi rack with a monitor on the wall would be a good solution.

Thinking about my realistic use scenario, I wanted to spend as little as possible on this as I only really need a web browser, spreadsheet for BOMs and pdf viewer. This ruled out the Intel NUC form factor computers as the cost is too high. The recent launch of the Raspberry Pi 4 is timely and this new iteration seems like it should be more than capable. Whilst thespecs are a significant improvement over previous models, there appears to be a slight problem with heat. The provision of a fan appears to mitigate against thermal throttling and for the light use it will be getting, this most likely not an issue for me.

The next consideration was the screen. I didn’t want to buy a new one so started looking at used models on the usual sites until I remembered that I had some old laptops in the shed that I’d rescued from people who were about to dispose of them. I’d managed to construct one complete working laptop using parts from others but still had these lying around in the hope that I’d be able to salvage something else from them in the future. The screen from a Samsung looked quite good so I started searching online to see if I could utilise it. It seems this is quite common and relatively straightforward as long as you can get the screen model number. In essence, you need a way to connect the HDMI out (or other output) from your PC to the particular signal input connector that your screen uses (usually LVDS). You then need to find an LCD controller driver board that will work with your screen, although universal options are also available.

You can buy standalone boards or kits that include various options such as all the cables, inverters if necessary, control keypads, remote controls, cases and so on. I managed to find a kit for my screen on Ebay that cost £17.99 including postage, with outputs for HDMI, DVI, VGA and also audio. It requires a 12V 3A power supply so if you still have the laptop charger (typically 19-20V) you could use a step-down converter. As I didn’t have a spare I had to purchase a 12V 3A AC-DC transformer.

To share the Internet with multiple users over Ethernet in Windows, go to the Network and Sharing Center. Then select the connected WiFi, right-click Properties – >; Select “Share” in the panel, and check the first check box on “Internet Connection Share”. If the home network connection is connected to the network cable, select the local connection. It will be the default if my computer is connected to WiFi

As long as Raspberry Pi is not restarted, use VNC to connect to Raspberry Pi remotely. If you want the Raspberry Pi to reboot, automatically run the VNC server.

The next time you reboot the Raspberry Pi display, vnc server will start automatically and seamlessly connect the Raspberry Pi display on the laptop screen and power it. Then open the VNCViewer and provide your Raspberry Pi’s IP address to use your laptop’s monitor as your Raspberry Pi display.