Bring to live a dead laptop with a Raspberry Pi or Android board

I have two dead laptops, and i was thinking that would be so great if i was able to remove the mother board and use a Raspberry Pi or those Android board like ODROID , AllWinner, etc, as motherboard replacement , or at least be able to re use their screen and connect it on those devices

what do you think ?

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Former Member over 10 years ago +1

I have seen that with enough poking around at resources for the individual parts necessary it is possible to make a mobile PC using a microcontroller like the RPi as the core system, however you'll be…
william_hoffer over 10 years ago +1

if you want a Raspberry P laptop, well Motorola made a Lapdock for there Atrix phone. It has a Micro USB and HDMI port behind the screen which you can plug in the Pi and supposedly power the Pi threw the…

kidiccurus over 10 years ago

It would require an excessive amount of work. You would need to reverse engineer both the keyboard and trackpad, and find a suitable driver for the LCD, and a way to charge the battery. The list goes on but suffice to say it would probably be better value to locate a used laptop with pi like specs and save some time (and possibly some money).
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Former Member over 10 years ago

I have seen that with enough poking around at resources for the individual parts necessary it is possible to make a mobile PC using a microcontroller like the RPi as the core system, however you'll be looking at all new parts (which claim your HDMI and USB ports and need their own power supplies) as well as a custom enclosure, not an existent laptop being converted up. Like Samuel Doye said, because of the way they're built most accessories for a laptop have drivers built right into the motherboard, so you'd need at least a driver board for the monitor, the mouse and the keyboard. Some of it is as simple as getting a board from a wholesale distributor and connecting the plugs/ribbons, while some of it is as complicated as ordering a vague driver IC, programming it yourself, and embedding it into a PCB you had to custom order.

All that said, doing either can be pretty rewarding.
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Former Member over 10 years ago

but what about just used the screen with raspberry ? i just ran into this page How to Convert a Laptop LCD into an External Monitor. , http://www.ebay.com/itm/M-NT68676-2A-HDMI-DVI-VGA-Audio-LCD-LED-Screen-Controller-Board-Diy-Monitor-Kit-/110977522562?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d6c69b82
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clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

As I see in the instructables, the controller is a VGA type which will need a converter to HDMI(no sound). These are hard to get to work with Raspberry Pi. It would be great to make this work. Please let us know how you do it when finished.
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william_hoffer over 10 years ago

if you want a Raspberry P laptop, well Motorola made a Lapdock for there Atrix phone. It has a Micro USB and HDMI port behind the screen which you can plug in the Pi and supposedly power the Pi threw the lapdock (Personally I don't think it has enough juice to do that and charge the lapdock's batteries).
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