DIY LCD Monitor (Laptop screen)

[Kharohz]

I'm making a DIY laptop (14" Thinkpad Yoga) LCD that will be connected to a lapdesk so I can hang out in my living room and use my desktop from two rooms away. As I have used this concept for some time with a motorola lapdock and this works great.

However, the lapdock monitor is a TN screen of hot garbage and I want a little bit bigger screen and IPS.

Since controller boards are pretty simple to come across, I started my little journey to make a replacement to the lapdock.

After picking an ideal panel I ordered one off of ebay as well as it's corresponding compatible LCD controller board, sadly the first panel I got was not what I ordered so I had to send that back. The second panel I ordered had a digitizier attached to it, short story is it did not work out, and I didn't want a shiny reflective screen that was useless So I broke it!

So third panel in, this is the results of my little frankenstein, only a few issues I'm trying to work out (Scaling issues, and waking up/turning on PC does not properly work, have to turn monitor on and off)

http://imgur.com/a/m3F5V

 

[Kharohz]

Little update, see above

 

[Suijin]

So just wondering (I really am as I am thinking of something similiar), what does this have over just doing a remote desktop? So have your cheap laptop or tablet being the remote desktop for the powerful desktop?

Really thinking of this for games that would be too demanding for the tablet/laptop (I have played things like Galactic Civilizations III that are too much for my laptop).

 

[Kharohz]

Well you have none of the limitations of hardware from your laptop or tablet, you don't have to worry about network connection issues. Because basically you are using a monitor that is directly connected to your PC. So it just works, period.

Originally I was inspired by the concept when nVidia shield came out, and I liked the idea of streaming games. But the ability to have full control of your desktop, games etc. was so far superior to the concept of mere streaming.