On 2016-08-22 12:17 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > Has anyone tried out the LCD adapter kits like this one on ebay. > http://m.ebay.com/itm/121124750917?_mwBanner=1
Not directly, but I have seen a whole bunch of consoles for ad promotions that use Raspberry Pi + Generic cheap laptop LCD + board almost exactly like this to make a cheap built-in HDMI display. Many of those are touchscreens, though. Matching the backlight inverter to the screen will be the hard part. > My friend surprised the heck out of himself when he bought a raspberry > pi and was able to get it working on his own. HDMI works fine for > connecting to his TV. He just needed a little help with a RTC setup. You got the RTC going okay? The most important lessons I've learned are: * Use a DS3231 if at all possible * Don't follow a tutorial that's more than a year old. If it mentions Raspbian Wheezy, run away! cheers, Stewart --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
