Hi. electrical engineer & college proffesor here.
Working on the same project. here is the deal. tou CAN use a laptop screen on a standard PC. Configuring it to work with you analog VGA card is possible, but VERY VERY impracticle. here is what I reccomend for cost efficiency and ease. I know you want to keep it cheap.
if you dont have a main board yet (or if you do and have all the parts and pieces, IE chip, memory, etc) purchase a EBC 552 pc card. everything is built in including a TFT controller. then its just an issue of making a connector and matching the pins. these cards are made for AMD, Pentium, and VIA Cyrix, so you can buy the to match the CPU and memory you already have. they go for about 100$. kind of expensive, but its the closest
to plug and play as it gets. you'll easily spend 100 in parts and pieces to make a standart VGA card work....and you might end up burning something up.
I'm curious...what kind of interface are you going to use?? mouse, keyboard?

good luck.
voodoosi@hotmail.com
let me know how it works out

wow, thats awesome. not bad, where do i go to lookinto buying one? havent found a retailer online yet. only been searchin a few mins. cant buy it anytime soon, no money! ack!

i had originally envisioned a touchscreen, but i could stand a number pad. or i have seen some people crack open a keyboard and use the controller to make their own keypad.

thanks for the help man.

later

http://www.iei.com.tw/products/pdf-l...uch-screen.pdf

IEI makes hundreds of models

including NAS for Iomega

He he. Touch screens are cool.

Re: use laptop screen on a pc??
 

Hi, I have a colour LCD from an old IBM Thinkpad (370C i think) and the screen model is Toshiba TLX-8063S-ZZA, does anyone have any information on this screen?
I would like a pinout for the connector/s that is has and possibly a timing diagram and/or information for interfacing it to a PC :)

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help :)

Where to find Nexcom Embedded Controllers
 

:confused:

Anybody any idea where to get these Embedded Controller boards voodoosi is talking about in his post.

Also does anybody have any experience with these boards?

A re-seller in Canada would be nice but the States works, too.

Thanks

:confused:

i havent found anywhere yet either mrIT. i'll email him though. my funds for this project have run thin, but i have a new job now, i may be able to start on it again.

later

NexCom EBC 552
 

I already emailed them and here is their answer:

Dear Mr. :

The embedded controller card you are interested in, our EBC-552, can be purchased directly from Nexcom here in the U.S. Below I have provided you with a quotation for small quantities of this product, from 1-10 pieces. If your volume is higher than this, please let me know and I will provide you with an alternate pricing quotation.


EBC-552 (P/N: 1E00055200) 5.25" form factor Pentium grade embedded controller supports all Socket 7 CPU up to 400MHz, Intel Low Power CPU Supported, Max. 128MB SO-DIMM SDRAM, on-board PC 104 connector and 32bit PCI connector, with ESS ES1989 Audio.

I do not like the price though.
:mad:

Digital Video Motherboards
 

In another post I read that digital output motherboards could work, too.

How?