How to reuse the old LCD Screen of your broken Laptop 

RU-vid recommended me this 5 years after oroginal upload date, Today. And when I started watching it, I felt wierd and asked, has this guy changed his tone of narration and all his theme? Then, I checked the date, it was 2014. WoW!

I usualy end up having working laptops with broken screens.

I'm actually tempted to buy a 14" 1080p IPS panel and suitable controller from ebay purely for this idea as I like smaller screens with a really high pixel density for console gaming. they simply look sharper than the larger screens where you can see the individual pixels. great video by the way, you've gained yourself a subscriber :D

Amazing tutorial thank you this is the only decent tutorial that I could find on the internet and I was almost about to just give up on my laptop screen! I've had it just lying in my room for so long so thank you.

hey! could you do more vids of reusing a broken/old laptop?

This is just the kind of tutorial I've been looking for!

wow so far one of the best work i have seen with this controller boards

Thank you very much, I contacted the seller and purchased my own board along with the power supply. They were very helpful. Cheers!

Awesome Scott!!! You never cease to amaze me with the cool projects you show us! Can't wait to do this! Thanks!

perfect just the project i need for my broken laptop

This is the second best video I've seen on RU-vid

This is exactly the kind of project that I was looking to do for one of my future projects. This stuff is awesome!

Interesting project. The only real problem is that the controller boards tend to be pricy, and laptop screens tend to run small. This is a great project to save a screen you might use in a portable device or don't want to toss out for sentimental reasons, but if you genuinely need a monitor, then just buy one preassembled because it's not that much more expensive than buying a controller board. And honestly, even if you want to work with bare panels and find preassembled monitors unsuited to your application, you can probably buy a nicer LCD than what was in your old laptop for very little money, relatively speaking. There's a huge variety of LCD panels out there... once you start looking at them, you'll start imagining all kinds of projects. For instance, I want a 4:3 aspect ratio monitor, but they don't make many of them anymore (outside of medical imaging applications), although 4:3 panels are much easier to find than 4:3 monitors.

Thank You brilliant idea I was just getting ready to throw out to my old laptop but then I saw this video I'm going to repurpose it

Always clean and tidy videos. Nice job Scott.

looking forward to this. Checking on compatibility for my screen now

Wow! you made that look easy. Inspiring! Thank you.

i am writing this on my 2nd display! thanks for the idea scott

Wow! Never even thought about doing this! I knew subscribing to your channel would give me too many ideas to stay out of trouble!

LUV it! Low cost, functional, simple! My 3 fave things! PLUS I'd have to guess MOST peop already have old broken laptops that still have perfectly working monitors! Excellent 2nd monitor option!! Really like the 6-12 volt power too! Makes it very mobile!

Thank you Scott, great instructable, this will be of great help for when I build my Raspberry PI laptop, regards Doc Cox

great information man! I'm quite impressed! thanks a million, brother!

Update for 2018 : The seller is still great, and Scott's video is working perfectly, they just take some time for the delivery process (mine took 3 weeks)

Hello! I'm not often leaving comments but here I have to :) dear Scott, you're channel is piece of very good work. Watching it brings me joy, and it lights up my creativity. I get here by accident(searching for that video controller), and now I'm watching all the stuff now. Regards and thanks for you're content.

tip: of you keep the input/ output board inside and get the shortest extender for the vga and dvi and run it to the side of the case, you can input both of those signals. get a raspberry pi and put it inside, run the usb and Ethernet to the side, and reposition the turn on off switch to a place easily accessible. then connect the hdmi to the raspberry pi and then the input on the controller. bam, you have made a raspberry pi screen and computer with 2 extra inputs.

Always good to watch this guy! If you made an app with your voice for Google maps I will buy it. No! No, you go too far! Now make U-turn at 💡

I done this stuff when I was a kid, really cool I love it

Now I have a use for my pile of old laptops! Thank you so much!

Somehow...this video inspired me to repair my old screen...but i fucked up and now its completely broken...so sad xd

I might combine this with the DIY Portable Mini Monitor in your previous video!

This is my favorite video of yours. I love it.

The most useful video i've ever seen

This guy kinda sounds like the spongebob time cards person. (Where it’s like “A few hours later”)

Like other people, I mostly get laptops without a screen but this is still interesting. What I would like to see is projects showing how to reuse the LCD displays (including touch LCD displays from printers like Canon, HP, etc. Would that be possible, please?

Excellent, I was trying to figure out how to reuse an old broken down laptop,n Great work and great ideas, thanks for the video.

Thats an absolutly great idea and project of you, i like it

Dayum, you made a TV from scratch. Great, Scott.

Instead of buying a €37 controller from ebay just buy a used €25 LCD monitor for desktop PCs which has a controller built in. Then you can tear that down and you have a screen and its controller.

That is genius!I've got a couple of scrap laptops and now I know what to use them for! Thanks! Subscribed!

perfect video my friend! I think you should make a video, showing others, how to make DIY videos!! thank you for making the effort to edit, to make it so clear and easy to watch!!! I'll be doing this project right away. thank you again!

"pretty simple right?" nah for me its rocket science

That's great, now I can create a screen out of an old laptop for my RPi2!

Nice work. I'm working on almost the exact same project. Thanks for your tips and tricks.

this is perfect! I've had a monitor from a laptop I ripped apart and wanted to use it but didn't have the chance

Amazing work, mate. You can charge my flux capacitor any day.

it would be really cool to set it into the wall I think

Wow, this is an old one! I think this might’ve been the video that I found your channel by actually!

Great video Scott.

i would have added internal speakers along the front under neath the lcd panel like it has a built in speaker bar and a back to it but thats a good job

you're awesome mate !! why isn't your channel verified yet?

Nice, I kept two of those taken off old Windows 7 and XP laptops. Thx for the useful video :D

That backlit look it gets is perfect

well NOW I find this video! I just took my old lap top to the gun range and put a bunch of holes in it! I could seriously use extra screens for, well, everything, no idea it could be so easy to harvest old lap top screens. To be fair however, It was IMMENSELY satisfying to put a bunch of 45 caliber holes in the lap top that caused so much frustration :-)

Sadly I have more broken screens with working laptops than the other way around.

The perfect solution to get a second display when on a low budget. Thank you very much for this video. :D

Scott, you are amazing! I love your videos :)

This would be awesome for 3 monitor setup. Find 3 identical old laptops with nice resolution, take the lcd's, make custom case for it and viola :D

When glueing acrylic..... Methylene chloride is your best friend ;) I make fish tanks with it

Would love to see this in array... Pretty neat job you've done there.

Smooth and easy explanation - thanks!

just realized that you must be german XD the ruler gave a hint, but anyways, your accent and stuff. nice video and cool channel!

I saw the title and thought, hey I have one of those. When I click on the video I see that it is the same laptop! What are the odds ;)

Nice Build !!! nice recycling project

u saved me money by showing this ty man

Says LCD screen from old laptops.... *Unscrews the laptop newer than which I am watching this video on*

Great video, do you have a ebay store to sell your builds? Thanks.

i did this and now i have a 3 screen setup :) Thanks scott, watch al your vids, keep it going :)

Have been looking for a video like this!! Thanks a lot.

add a rgb light on the inside

Would this be possible to do with a smartphone LCD? I have a Nexus 4 that's completely tanked, but the screen is still good. Would make a great portable test monitor.

great idea and thanks for sharing the process.

Awesome build!

Instead of that huge speaker connector you could instead use a headphone jack instead with an adaptor cable.

What about reusing tiny lcds like phone screens and old baby monitors

very professional description............thank u

This project is awesome, think I will have a try at this one!

Thank you! Now I can DIY a car DVD player without having to pay for crap prices.

"It's time to put all this crap together" But thanks dude i have a couple of these sitting around, and they're thin enough to set into the drywall as a sick monitor!

Great video scott!!

Woww this was a really really cool project. A little to advanced for me at the moment but i do want to do this some day. Much love from. NY. USA

This but covering an entire wall

Hey there, awesome idea! I decided to make one too with my old dell laptop, which has a nice lcd screen. After ordering the new driver board for the lcd screen and some weeks later I was finally able to try this out. I connected the lcd to the driver board, and the driver board to my laptop. Everything worked perfectly fine so I decided to place the screen at a better place. After plugging all the cables in again the screen started to turn on and of, it's like a sharp white color for a really short amount, than it turns black, a few seconds later it does the same. this just continues. When I press the menu button and the screen blinks white, I can see the little menu popup. Sometimes when I try it again the screen works just fine, but most of the time it just starts blinking and blinking and blinking.... I really have no clue what's wrong. Is there anybody who can help me?

I hadn't even thought about laptop displays as generic parts. And here I have a small stack of scraptops in the closet. Thanks for the weekend project!

You are very hard working.

I think you can put raspberry pi inside of that broken laptop and make it them like brand new laptop. What do you say?

Yeah, I keep a car battery conveniently next to the 12v power supply in my desktop.

Great tutorial! Love the way you talk. ( "then we glue all this crap together") exactly how I think !

Why is this in my recommended? Great video btw

hmm... i may take apart my old screen and make my ps4 into a laptop... I wonder what resolution it is...

um i have a question ... where can i get a power supply for the controller board?

bro i just lost hope but after seeing you i got amazed and in coincidence my laptop is same model

That was awesome! Thank you for creating this beautiful youtube channel. I watched all your videos and i appreciate your effort very much.

hi , its hard to get the controller from the inter net so how i can take it of from the laptop i live in Gaza strip , its hard to get these things over the internet help thanx

what if the display is touch screen, I could have a tablet!

thanks man, I've never thought of that!

what a nice project! I may actually do it for fun! Thank you!

Is it just me or was your English better in 2014? Anyway, thanks for this great video.

37 bucks for the controller for that much i could just buy a used monitor off craigs list

Thank you, this very cool film helps me with my old stuff.

I give you 2 thumbs up! One on your #shorts video and one on this video simply because you included a link to the full video in your #shorts description! I wish more #shorts videos would include links in their #shorts videos. Thank you! and well done.