rawdog Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) i have a dead laptop thats 18" hd, and touch screen. So my thoughts are adding a cheap vga card to my pc, building a frame and tacking it to my pc tower then setting the tochscreen in the frame. The only problem i have is making a digital lcd to vga/dvi signal converter. I know it can be done, i have heard of car guys doing this, i just don't know where to start, so far i have been looking for the schematics because the company i found that sold these components are out of business. my idea is haveing a more contained system with my usb rubber keyboard, and the touchscreen i can have all my system monitors on it watch movies etc etc. along with my current 42" pro's/con's anything I might be overseeing or missing with this idea? Edited October 26, 2011 by rawdog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MH6~SPARTA~ Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 So let me get this straight--you want to take a touchscreen monitor off of an old laptop, mount it to your PC, and use it as an input device? Or do you want to use it like an extra monitor for the PC? Tad confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawdog Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 an extra touchscreen monitor that is physically attached to the pc tower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skaz~SPARTA~ Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 seems like an awful lot of work, good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PANiC Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 didn't realise how tricky this could be (going off the number of ppl asking in forums for the past 10 years from agoogle search). came across this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKifzJ7sEWs&feature=related which points to this ebay page: http://www.ebay.com/sch/njytouch/m.html i dunno if it helps in any way but info seems hard to find, i thik mainly due to the cost of the controller boards (or how much they used to cost). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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