Do-It-Yourself LCD TV

Your notebook has served you well for years, but when it begins to slow down and the plastic casing starts break, you know it’s time to throw it away. Well, Smartjohn has a better idea. Why not transform your dead notebook into a shiny LCD TV? It’s possible when you know how. With just the right materials and a little amount of technical skills, you can resurrect your dead notebook and transform it into a shiny LCD TV.

Step 1: You have to remember that a notebook LCD only accepts digital signal so it can’t be used directly with the PC. But this problem is easily solved by a converter that transforms the analog signal to digital. You’d also need an inverter to activate the CCFL (lamp).

The rest of the steps await after the jump!

Your notebook has served you well for years, but when it begins to slow down and the plastic casing starts break, you know it’s time to throw it away. Well, Smartjohn has a better idea. Why not transform your dead notebook into a shiny LCD TV? It’s possible when you know how. With just the right materials and a little amount of technical skills, you can resurrect your dead notebook and transform it into a shiny LCD TV.

Step 1: You have to remember that a notebook LCD only accepts digital signal so it can’t be used directly with the PC. But this problem is easily solved by a converter that transforms the analog signal to digital. You’d also need an inverter to activate the CCFL (lamp).

Step 2: Once you have the converter and the inverter, connect away! You can use this very useful guide if you don’t know which connects to which. It’ll save you a lot of trouble.

Step 3: If you’ve succeeded in Step 2, connect the LCD panel into the driver, then connect the LCD panel power into the inverter. It should look like this:

Step 4: Here comes the best part. Testing it!

Step 5: Put the circuit board in the case

Step 6: Voila! The final product