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Can I use raspberry to use the working parts of a broken laptop?

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I have an acer travel mate laptop. A broken one. VGA doesnt work, but it costs 149 euros to fix it. So, I was thinking that I could fix it with Raspberry and use the screen and the keyboard at least, right? I want to give it to my mum so that she could use skype and a browser (she doesnt need anything else at all).

 

But how do I start the process? Are there any special cables that can help me connect the raspberry unit to the laptop and from then on how can I make it take control of the keyboard and screen?

 

Cheers

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  • Unlikely to get hardware like LCD's to work if you had the skills to do it then you wouldn't be asking us for sure ,..It's far from trivial to do that.

    How ever some peripherals are attached to the laptop mother board via USB so any peripheral attached like this would work.

    the most obvious example would be the Laptop's Camera although you will again need to solder the cable to a standard USB connector to work.

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  • Unlikely to get hardware like LCD's to work if you had the skills to do it then you wouldn't be asking us for sure ,..It's far from trivial to do that.

    How ever some peripherals are attached to the laptop mother board via USB so any peripheral attached like this would work.

    the most obvious example would be the Laptop's Camera although you will again need to solder the cable to a standard USB connector to work.

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