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Post by Espen Skog on Dec 15, 2009 9:02:42 GMT -5
Hi. I am wondering on putting the c64 DTV board inside a old/new PC laptop case. Size-wise, it is trivial as teh DTV board is small. But my main prolem is:
1. Making an adapter to use the keyboard. Ie make a adapter for the already onboard keyboard in the laptop to "talk" ps/2 in order to connect it to the DTV board
2. Being able to hook up to either the internal LCD panel or remove it and add a LCD which fits (can be difficult) that takes composite signal etc.
The rest (power, IO etc etc) is easy.
I really don't want to start makeing a new case from scratch. I want to re-use a laptop and preferably the LCD and keyboard if possible.
Anyone who has tried or has some info for me ?
Regs Espen
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Post by mistermsk on Dec 15, 2009 10:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by Espen Skog on Dec 21, 2009 7:24:01 GMT -5
This looks like more of a DIY PC kit. I think I just need to take a old laptop and strip its inside for whatever parts are there and just use the kbd and put the dtv inside. Then I must find a way to glue a LCD which takes SVIDEO input (like psOne LCD) onto the existing monitor-frame. That way, I will get a nice little c64 laptop. However -- this sounds very easy, but my experience is that there is a kazillion things to dig out to make it all fit I think the worst problem is to find a pc laptop case which has the right lcd side to mount a psOne LCD inside so that it fits nicely into the frame (more or less) and that it is not thicker than the original LCD. Keyboard should be easy. I guess an old PC laptop kbd consist of some kind of flat-cable that has a matrix'ed solution I can feed to a pic chip somehow to make it ps/2 compliant. Nevertheless -- it will take a lot of time to make this. :-) Espen
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Post by streetuff on Dec 21, 2009 12:33:04 GMT -5
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Post by Espen Skog on Dec 22, 2009 8:15:08 GMT -5
That's cool :-) Is this an old laptop you re-used the casing from ?
A question for you: What is the dimensions of the LCD of the PSOne LCD -- and how thick is it ? Also, how thick is it when the LCD+PCB are on top of eachother ?
PS! How come you did not re-use the original keyboard of the laptop ? (or maybe it was not a laptop ?)
Cool Mod, dude.
Espen
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Post by streetuff on Dec 22, 2009 11:23:51 GMT -5
hmmm.
what in "i used a joytech playstation 2 tft color monitor" did you not understand?
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Post by Espen Skog on Jan 4, 2010 10:27:24 GMT -5
Nevermind...after reading twice and looking over the page again...it all sunk in :-) After seeing another mod another place on this site, I think modding those portable dvd-players is the most logical and easy way to get a portable DTV as the monitor is probably easy to adapt to the DTV and the biggest challenge must be how to fit a keyboard in the case so that the lid can close. I will see if I can mod my 2nd DTV2 into such a thingy
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Post by David Murray on Jan 7, 2010 14:12:21 GMT -5
I remember a lot of discussion on this topic several years ago. I don't think anyone came up with any good answers. The main two problems would be adapting the keyboard and display. I think it could be done but would require some kind of custom FPGA or something to make it all work.
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