Comments on: Hackit: Simple portable monitor

By: hackadayareyouhackishenough

hackadayareyouhackishenough — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:21:52 +0000

I know that this thread is damn old but I just have to ask, would it be possible to use an Andoid phone (via the mini usb?) as a monitor? Recently I read about the usb host mode that’s being developed… do you hackers think that one’s possible?

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By: vermiculite

vermiculite — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:59:21 +0000

I have been trying to follow the Picframe mod for a while. Where you can use a cheap digital photo frame as a second monitor. (see http://spritesmods.com/?art=picframe&page=1 and http://picframe.spritesserver.nl/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ) but I don’t have a linux machine at the moment. Anybody know of any progress on a windows version?

By: scott

scott — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:19:39 +0000

how about leaving the praying for church and in ur own homes, I am a religious man but this isnt really the place for imposing your want to pray on others including me if you really want to thank god that much turn off your pc and go to church (ps dont hack anything there)
bullet points
1 church for praying
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By: RFXCasey

RFXCasey — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:12:36 +0000

This discussion seems a little dead but, no one had mention digital camera displays. I haven’t looked into this peronally but some can be had cheap with nice res and color. Also the Jews don’t use g*d to replace Gods name as his name is actually Yhwh or in modern english Jehovah. This is according to Jewish and also the Catholic church. The Jews were afraid to say it wrong as ancient hebrew had no vowels. Just had to add what I know to the conversation.

By: BlueArchon

BlueArchon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:50:38 +0000

Ebay is a good source for cell phone replacement screens, and they're usually very cheap. Many of them can be interfaced with a serial connection (check for example http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/)

By: Uranium

Uranium — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:58:21 +0000

A PSP screen can be had cheaply on sites such as eBay or dealextreme. It’s a very nice display

By: edman

edman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:25:17 +0000

Heres a hack that someone did that allows you to use those cheap ~20 keychain digital picture frames as a monitor

http://www.planetsurfer.net/2008/06/05/use-a-cheap-digital-picture-frame-as-a-secondary-display/

working on porting it to windows..

By: nachowarrior

nachowarrior — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:00:45 +0000

I think that one of the most readily available screens would be from that of cell phones. You can get a cell phone starting at 10 bucks with color screens that don’t do too bad considering the price tag. If i knew how, i would gladly buy them for pc case mods and the like. Virgin mobile has one of the cheapest and most readily avialable cheap phones that i have found.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:36:05 +0000

#14:

"G*d" and similar constructs are sometimes used by Jews to avoid writing the name of God, which they consider disrespectful.

By: Nes

Nes — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:47:55 +0000

@ #31, it's a bit of a work in progress but there are some photos of the viewfinder option here: http://snipurl.com/2exaq. I went for a 3" Samsung which contains a Sony chipset and accepts composite or s-video signals. It seems there are plenty of 3.5" and 4" options around too.

By: Rachid Heffels

Rachid Heffels — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:54:12 +0000

That old Sony viewfinder idea is great !
Full PAL/NTSC resolution and very very tiny !
You have some image of that ?
Are you referring to a studio viewfinder (large) or a viewfinder from a handycam ?

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:43:13 +0000

Do the Nokia 6100 displays get a decent framerate when interfaced to a linux box? In 5 minutes of googling I only found lpt interfaces to this display and I doubt those would go >1 frame/sec.

By: tino_b

tino_b — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:28:53 +0000

Well, I'm not sure it's *quite* what you meant, but I've been using my PSP as a display.

Connect to my laptop via the wireless card, then run an SSH app or VNC app to control it.

Great for wireless penetration testing on the move - laptop in my backpack, PSP in hand. Inconspicuous.

I did make a portable disply a while ago though, based on one of the hacks on this site - the portable dvd player/video-in hack. I found one and all I had to do was build a custom housing and solder in a traditional rca socket for the video. Worked a charm.

By: Kyllan

Kyllan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:02:35 +0000

It would be great to put colour touchscreen into Psion 5 case. Ehh, dreams…

By: N256

N256 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:00:32 +0000

What about http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.3175 ?
(Note: Is not touch sensitive.)