eeePC 701 LCD
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2018 3:19 am
Hello (first post!)
I picked up a broken joggler for a fiver on ebay last week. I happened to have an eeePC 701 LCD along with a VGA/composite driver board for it going to waste here, and hoped that I might be able to shoehorn it in to the quite attractive joggler case (eventually hopefully with a raspberry pi in there as well). With a bit of finagling it's a pretty much perfect fit.
First I removed the existing LCD, initially leaving the front metal bracket of the joggler LCD attached to the touch screen, as its glued quite firmly to it. To do this I worked my way around the LCD bracket with a very fine flat head screwdriver, separating it, and then it more-or-less just dropped out. Then I got that remaining metal bracket out using pliers to work my way along. Unfortunately this destroys the bracket as it really doesn't want to come off. Before putting the eeePC LCD in I also removed its front bracket, as it reduces its dimensions by just enough that it aligns properly with the black borders around touch screen. After that it just slides in, for the moment I've stuck a bit of cardboard on one side to keep it aligned properly.
Unfortunately the LCD cable is in the exact same place as one of the touch screen cables, and the LCD driver board has a bunch of capacitors that raise its height by enough that it isn't possible to put the touch screen board on top of the LCD driver board. However, I've seen a driver board that is much slimmer, which should do the trick.
Once I'm happy with the display and touch screen I'll try to hook up a pi fairly neatly so that it can use all the original joggler sockets, and put a small amp in there to drive the speakers.
Anyway, hope this might be of interest to some of you!
I picked up a broken joggler for a fiver on ebay last week. I happened to have an eeePC 701 LCD along with a VGA/composite driver board for it going to waste here, and hoped that I might be able to shoehorn it in to the quite attractive joggler case (eventually hopefully with a raspberry pi in there as well). With a bit of finagling it's a pretty much perfect fit.
First I removed the existing LCD, initially leaving the front metal bracket of the joggler LCD attached to the touch screen, as its glued quite firmly to it. To do this I worked my way around the LCD bracket with a very fine flat head screwdriver, separating it, and then it more-or-less just dropped out. Then I got that remaining metal bracket out using pliers to work my way along. Unfortunately this destroys the bracket as it really doesn't want to come off. Before putting the eeePC LCD in I also removed its front bracket, as it reduces its dimensions by just enough that it aligns properly with the black borders around touch screen. After that it just slides in, for the moment I've stuck a bit of cardboard on one side to keep it aligned properly.
Unfortunately the LCD cable is in the exact same place as one of the touch screen cables, and the LCD driver board has a bunch of capacitors that raise its height by enough that it isn't possible to put the touch screen board on top of the LCD driver board. However, I've seen a driver board that is much slimmer, which should do the trick.
Once I'm happy with the display and touch screen I'll try to hook up a pi fairly neatly so that it can use all the original joggler sockets, and put a small amp in there to drive the speakers.
Anyway, hope this might be of interest to some of you!