On Aug 22, 2016 3:36 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
I have three older Toshiba's which all apparently use the same inverter. All with the same MP bios issue. This particular LCD was the only DOA and since I couldn't Frankenstein the MB in the oven at home to reseat the chip, I disassembled it, mostly for the screws, connectors and such. I still have the original Toshiba I started with which ran only off the battery and could never be set run from AC only. I can test the inverter and panel with it. > > > 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 My friend lives just around the corner from Creatroninc on College St. A short conversation about the Pi one day and the next day he picked up the Pi, noobs, wireless keyboard and the rtc. DS1307 because it had the pin through fitting. > > * Don't follow a tutorial that's more than a year old. If it mentions > Raspbian Wheezy, run away! With noobs the wireless networking worked out of the box and he installed the latest Raspbian. I think that's Jessie, but I'd have to check. In case anyone else gets a recent Pi. Here are instructions for setting up the RTC under Raspbian Jessie. I didn't quite do it this way. Makes me think I'll have to actually reboot the Pi next visit to check for persistance. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=125003 >then > cheers, > Stewart > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk Russell Sent from mobile.
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