Electronic – Raspberry Pi and laptop display

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I have a Raspberry Pi Model B and the display unit from a Dell laptop – functional, but removed from the laptop because of a broken hinge.
Is there any way the Pi's GPIO pins can be used to drive the display unit directly, to function as the Pi's monitor?

Best Answer

It might be possible, but

  • Such displays often use a parallel interface (4, 8 or more data lines, lots of control lines) and the Pi has only a few GPIO available on the extension connector. (You can guess the number of GPIO simply by counting the wires in your interface - likely a flex cable).

  • I don't think anyone has done this yet, it will not be easy, and there is not much incentive to do this for any particular screen.

So unless you are in it for the thrill (and willing to spend a lot of time on it) I would say: forget it.

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