1 year ago
What would it take to build a universal display driver for the most common LCD panels used in Laptops?
Nowadays LCD panels from Laptops can be aquired for almost no money, e.g. sourced from broken laptops whose displays are still working, ebay etc.
the problem is that these don't use a common protocol but require an intermediate driver that translates vga or dvi (or even hdmi) input to the lcds protocol.
the idea is to build a highly modular piece of hardware that takes video input and drives these panels and make it available to the public open source.
what would it take to develop something like that, on both the hardware and software side (and how high would you estimate the hardware cost)?
the problem is that these don't use a common protocol but require an intermediate driver that translates vga or dvi (or even hdmi) input to the lcds protocol.
the idea is to build a highly modular piece of hardware that takes video input and drives these panels and make it available to the public open source.
what would it take to develop something like that, on both the hardware and software side (and how high would you estimate the hardware cost)?
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