Laptop, before & after

Computers & Mobile Technology
Laptop, before & after

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Mqtthiqs writes – “I found a couple of those *really* old laptops at garage sales. They are 100% functionning, and the screen of this one is a wonderfully old school blue-white one. I *had* to do something with it… If you remove the whole plastic case, keeping only what really useful is (screen, motherboard and power supply), and if you glue the whole thing between two boards of acrylic, you have a wonderful display monitor that you can hang on the wall, to have the weather or some news in your kitchen…I just finished the hardware part, now i have to make the wifi work (it’s a standard PCMCIA card), write the program that displays the informations… “Link.

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A bijillion laptop photo frame projects – Link.

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