Reusing Old Digital Camera LCD Screen

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17 years ago

Sat, Apr 7, 2007 8:08 PM

I have an old Canon A70 that no longer works. I'd love to take the LCD screen and repurpose it into some sort of mobile picture frame. The LCD screen is a Sony AM309-3 A, and it's roughly 1-1.5". I've been searching Google with no success... Has anybody done this before, or have any suggestions on where I can look for hints on how to do something like this? It'll be the first of such projects that I attempt. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)

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17 years ago

Sat, Apr 7, 2007 8:39 PM

This has been asked many times and the answer was always that it would be impractical and nearly impossible to do.

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17 years ago

Sat, Apr 7, 2007 8:49 PM

LCD screens that have internal controllers can be controlled by a microcontroller, but the screen in your camera would likely require some very advanced engineering to make it work in anything else.

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17 years ago

Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:05 PM

March 2007 issue of Elektor Magazine has an article on doing this with an Alcatel alphanumeric display. It would be rather more difficult I think, with a graphics screen, but it might be worth contacting the author of this article to see if he has tried it. You can often contact their authors and contributors through the forums on the magazine website.

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17 years ago

Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:17 PM

Hmm... I still have the PCB that it's connected to. I guess I'd just need to come up with some way to fool the PCB into thinking that the camera is working and that it's in display mode. Still probably difficult. I really have no idea how I'd do it. Just that it'd probably be easier than taking just the LCD screen and trying to get it to work.