Making an External Monitor from a Laptop Screen - Mikes Inventions 

Any and all STL Files for this project are now available for download on my website! I also apologize for the Anakin quote. It was something of a running joke at work, because hey, how often do things actually work perfectly on the first try? I'm big on movie quotes, so... yeah. You'll come across one frequently. Even bad ones.I'm also so sorry about the audio issues. It's far too late now to do anything about it, and I certainly understand all your frustration, but I sure appreciate your sticking with me on this one.

Trapped in the 80's and building modern tech

Hi, Mike Thompson, I'm Michael Thompson.

The man put in his time and effort to provide this information. You didn't pay anything for it, so don't complain about the content. Great work Mike, and thank you. Please keep it up!

This dude been travelling back to the future. Nice demo perfect instruction!

"you can see it's really not that hard at all"

I'm impressed, a very clean and good job.

Good job bro. I have an old lab top at the house that I couldn't see myself throwing out. (I'm very frugal) thanks for the hard work.

That's actually a really good design, I've been sitting here for 5 minutes trying to work out how I was going to build mine, this is a really versatile and best of all portable design. I'll be hopefully using a small step up converter so I can run mine off a 2a usb plug though. Thanks for the inspiration

Thanks for the tips. Just salvaged my old HP screen tonight and found your video! This will be helpful

I'm only half way through the video and your portable secondary screen looks incredibly similar to a pc monitor! Good thing you had all those fancy tools to save you from having to buy another monitor!

Awesome, Mike. Thanks for sharing!!! Very nice design!

Thanks Mike! I appreciate the method and the insight, looks great! Good luck on the death-ray.

Thanks dude, this is what I needed to know. I'm going to put a desktop inside a briefcase and had a few laptop screens lying around.

Mike, this is excellent and I look forward to building one of these. The parts acquisition was what I was missing.

"You can see that building an external monitor is really as simple as buying a controller and plugging it in...... as smart as this video is Mike, I think that this build is slightly more difficult than plugging a controller in. awesome build by the way

Nice work, a must build for myself, thanks.

looks Cool... keep up the COol work

Really solid advice here. Will defo try this out!!

Depending on the laptop you use for this you can sometimes reuse all or part of the original screen casing/frame(i don't know what it's called). It probably won't fit the controller but considering you have to build something anyway, modifying it can be easier.

that's awesome! I'be been meaning to try this project out for my work laptop.

I just thought about this and was sure that someone had already done it. Thanks Mike for be the pioneer for me. 😎 I have loads of dead laptops that I will use to do this too.

“ oh and for the heck of it, i also installed a quadcore multisonic triptomonitor for holographic imaging technology” cool!

loved watching this

Thanks for the tips Cheers Simon

I took this exact laptop apart yesterday with the intention to make an external monitor of it and have now been recommended this video. HOW DO YOU KNOW RU-vid

Subscribed. Only wanted to figure out how to reuse my laptop screen, but this was more than I expected.

"Im saving disk platters so I can build a telescope or a death ray"

I have seen at least 3 other videos about making a portable monitor from old laptops and I have to say your build is the cleanest and best looking. I have one old laptop which I can actually use to make a portable monitor but the process is too complicated.

This is soo cool!! Great job!!

I enjoyed your video. It was very helpful. Thank you!

Brilliant idea. You made a breat job. :)

Absolutely awesome Job Sheldon (Cooper). Looking forward to your death ray tutorial ;-)

Damnn Mike. Very thorough, inspirational and interesting. Great video!!! New subscriber!

Thanks for video, is truly a good starting guide for me with my plan of building a smart mirror .

Nice work!

Excellent video, to the point! Very useful tips for my own project.

why my first thought this is video from 90' advertisement or something

2:20 Jeeeeeeeeez you woke up the dead. Nice video by the way. I've made something similar but I don't have these many views. mine is powered by USB type C, and another one can be powered by both type c and 12V. Also, they have room to store the cables.

Thanks, very good info will try making one.

I’m so glad I saved all the components of my laptops, now let’s get to thinking along with this video to help :)

Sound and video came out from 90's.

Great ideia, and your presentation was straight to the point.

Cool project man always wanted to try

Nice video- well made and thoroughly explained. Thanks! New sub here too

3:49 Never forget Murphy's Fourth Law. 'When you make something idiot proof, they will make a better Idiot'.

Wow my model was 01,& your model 02.what a co-incidence

Seems like one need to have whole factory ! To build this

subscribed, definitely inspired to follow an innovative mind

Thanks to your channel, I solved a problem where LCD controller board (ext. monitor) and laptop have their own power supply. So, I branched my laptop's adapter cable, one line to laptop (19 V), while the other one to external monitor using step-down XL4015 CC/CV (12V-1A). Previously, I used LM2596 (CV), but the module exploded due to overheat. It's my first time did some project like this.

Very good video showing how to reuse that hp monitor. I do have same hp laptop and I don't use it cause is too old. You gave me great ideas. Thank you.

man oh my, you are a genius

Most downvotes probably are a response to having to quickly lower the audio volume when "it's working, it's working" tears up the speakers. That being said, thanks for the video.

not sure if mike will see this, but i would LOVE a google doc for the 3D models he used to accomplish this, especially the corner clamps and standoffs. been wanting to do a project like this with 3 old laptops, and being able to duplicate the process this easily would make it go by so much easier/smoother.

Appearance:neat old school suite and hair (and face). Articulation:loud and clear. Video duration: not that long, ample. Sense of humor: enjoyable. Content value added:confirmed, inspirative. Instruction step by step: sufficiently detailed. Like:yes. Subscribe:yes.

Awsome sir.

Great DIY

From the Sir G display to the keyboard, you can find long wires to connect the display and keyboard

Excellent video.

This man was the last person to ever be seen inside a radio shack in 2017

Good Job!!

amazing work very good stuff

Nice vid bro

Nice! I have a bunch of old laptops I plan to use for projects like this. How is the death ray coming along?

FYI delivery is a little cheesy (like an american insurance advert :) )but content is fantastic new sub here !

You had me at micro aquaponic system

Para la próxima podrías mostrar más el resultado final . nice you video saludos desde Venezuela

Gonna give this a try, I will update when I do so.

I feel like I'm back in school watching an instructional video on a tube TV sitting on a wheeled cart connected to a vcr

perfect I like This work

thnaks mike, saving this

Hi Mike! I really liked your video, I was wondering if I could be able to do a secondary external monitor the same way from a touch screen? Thks!

Nice video

Thank you very much.

you are a born innovator.

me encanto, construire la mia en base a tus consejos muchas gracias, saludos desde chile

This feels like something from the early 2000s to 1990s

Awesome. Great habilit.

Hi, I've seen similar videos in which they use Step UP modules. I still don't understand what would be the difference of using one or the other. Great video as usual. :)

Thank you sir

i thought you had a struggle in your video so i subscribed to your channel

nice to watch

You got to be kidding... That's exactly my laptop!!!

Transparency adds to the LCDs true image quality. Good monitor choice. If you sell an A.K. Post link. I'm trying to add my Deloreans Plutonium using windows 10 to a first gen Xbox console shell.

Superb

Thank you Sheldon!

Wow make one that is same size as laptop. And use the hing as a hold so y have screens that snap on side of laptop!!

Awesome video thanks. I think I have the same laptop Hp Dv6?

Hey Mike cool video! I'm thinking of doing something like this to have a mobile monitor for my macbook. I'm wondering if you could explain a little more about pass through power or if you know where I could find information relating specifically to my 2017 macbook pro with usb type c ports. Thanks.

Dude you are amazing

Great video :)

How would I do this with a touch screen monitor and keep the touch screen on desktop motherboard.

Tell me more about this telescope from HDD platters...

SUBSCRIBED!

hi, this great, thanks. something i didn't catch is, would the touch screen work? thanks in advance for any help on this. regards.

A very handy hack.

How to connect a 1inch 6bit 40 pin laptop screen(LP156WH2)...? How to give LED Backlight...?

i felt threatened when he said go ahead and subscribe

i really wish to do same this because i love this , unfortunately i need the tools

Great