Making good progress on this one.
iPad LCD replacement for powerbook - also boosts the resolution to 800x600!

EDIT: More details of what's going on here....
I've 3d printed a bezel for the LCD to fit the original bezel:
Excuse the fingerprints, and the colour choice of filament. I need to find something suitable to protect the LCD from the elements (normally it would have the touch glass front of an iPad.
I've squeezed the driver board into the disused floppy caddy:
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I desoldered the proprietary Apple monitor port and carefully hardwired a cut-off VGA cable to it:


Electrially - I reverse engineered the combination of the Apple external monitor dongle (Dongles for connections is nothing new for Apple!):

Still to do:
1. close up the laptop lid, dealing with the usual brittle standoffs (I used the 3D printed replacement parts shared here and here)
2. route the only just long enough (I hope) LCD cable
3.Probably shorten the VGA cable a bit more,so the caddy will go all the way in
4. find 12V within the laptop to power the driver board
5. find a way to bring back internal sound - this relies on the now broken LCD ribbon cable, and some circuitry on the original LCD driver board.
6. maybe also bring back the microphone!
iPad LCD replacement for powerbook - also boosts the resolution to 800x600!

EDIT: More details of what's going on here....
I've 3d printed a bezel for the LCD to fit the original bezel:

I've squeezed the driver board into the disused floppy caddy:

I desoldered the proprietary Apple monitor port and carefully hardwired a cut-off VGA cable to it:


Electrially - I reverse engineered the combination of the Apple external monitor dongle (Dongles for connections is nothing new for Apple!):

Video card | VGA Label | VGA DB15 | apple db15 | VGA cable colours |
1 | RED | 1 | | red |
2 | | 8 | | |
3 | | nc | | |
4 | V-sync | 14 | | blk |
5 | | nc | | |
6 | | nc | | |
7 | | 11 | 6 | |
8 | GREEN | 2 | | green |
9 | | short to 10 | 7 | |
10 | | 10 | | |
11 | | nc | 10 | |
12 | H-Sync | 13 | | wht |
13 | BLUE | 3 | 9 | blue |
14 | | | 2,6,7,10,14 | GND? |
| | | | |
Shield | GND | 4,5,6,7,8 | | |
Still to do:
1. close up the laptop lid, dealing with the usual brittle standoffs (I used the 3D printed replacement parts shared here and here)
2. route the only just long enough (I hope) LCD cable
3.Probably shorten the VGA cable a bit more,so the caddy will go all the way in
4. find 12V within the laptop to power the driver board
5. find a way to bring back internal sound - this relies on the now broken LCD ribbon cable, and some circuitry on the original LCD driver board.
6. maybe also bring back the microphone!
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