Hey Guys,
Thought I would make the eye ball part for this week, but found out the Thermal sensor to be broken, have ordered a new one wondering how long its gonna take for delivery.
While walking around I found this monitor over the trash, I took it home.
After reading about it, I had a second thought of using this fellow. Its back light is CCFL which is supposed to have some mercury and the panel was broken, while the one salvaged from the Dell was LED and also intact (probably I'd turn it into a Smart TV).
So just thought it would be better to re-purpose this than leaving it in the trash. Its from ViewSonic not sure for the model. Started to dismantle it 
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The power board was dead, and the control board was rusted....
But a lot of components could be salvaged and used again.
I found this Inverter capable of powering 4 CCFL's (fulfills our need), it costed around 500INR approx 8$
It has the(from left to Right) Vin,Vin, Enable, Brightness,Ground and Ground. Unfortunately the Brightness Pin was dummy.
All we need is the White Screen so removed the Panel.
Some connections.... Some soldering....
I removed the speaker connections which I did in the previous blog and turned them into wire to board connectors for convenience.
The code, well its actually simple..
void setup() {
pinMode(2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(4, INPUT);
}
void loop() {
if (digitalRead(4) == HIGH)
{
digitalWrite(2, HIGH);
} else {
digitalWrite(2, LOW);
}
}
Lights ON... I placed to photo to see how it looks as a light panel. Well its WOW.
Well our actual purpose it to use it a under glow lamp, so I just flipped it...It's too bright so I've done some fancy work, which I'm gonna show only in the final post 
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Cheers
