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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: NiHaoMike on August 29, 2010, 11:11:41 pm

Title: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: NiHaoMike on August 29, 2010, 11:11:41 pm
This thread was inspired by the following picture:
(http://i38.tinypic.com/25r2h7c.jpg)
That's an iPod taken apart and laid out on a sheet of paper, then turned on. The result is the interesting image you see above.

Here's a LCD monitor:
(http://i34.tinypic.com/263y1bs.jpg)
There is something that looks wrong in the picture but isn't, can anyone guess what it is?

And feel free to post more interesting pictures of devices that are turned on after taking them apart.
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: Kiriakos-GR on August 29, 2010, 11:36:39 pm
Its an laptop LCD connected with some sort of TV game  .

Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: NiHaoMike on August 30, 2010, 04:10:20 am
Nope, that's a 22" desktop S-MVA LCD.
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: armandas on August 30, 2010, 07:45:19 am
Probably not that interesting, but just for the record :)
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: mikeselectricstuff on August 30, 2010, 11:02:55 am
(http://electricstuff.co.uk/ipodlc2.jpg)

More here  (http://electricstuff.co.uk/ipodlcd.html)
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: Rhythmtech on August 30, 2010, 08:45:33 pm
Quote from: NiHaoMike on August 29, 2010, 11:11:41 pm
There is something that looks wrong in the picture but isn't, can anyone guess what it is?

And feel free to post more interesting pictures of devices that are turned on after taking them apart.


It has a TV tuner?
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: NiHaoMike on August 31, 2010, 02:23:47 am
Quote from: Rhythmtech on August 30, 2010, 08:45:33 pm
It has a TV tuner?
That is one of the few monitors to have an integrated ATSC/QAM tuner, but that's not what I'm looking for.

Those who have taken apart a LCD monitor or laptop screen before will notice something that looks out of place.
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: NiHaoMike on September 02, 2010, 03:34:10 am
Hint: that monitor doesn't have something that most LCD monitors do (apart from a case, of course), but it works fine without it.
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: McPete on September 05, 2010, 10:53:33 am
Idle observation here, but I'm not seeing a power supply large enough (I'd have thought) to drive a largish monitor.  That wouldn't be it, would it?
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: NiHaoMike on September 05, 2010, 03:59:12 pm
Quote from: McPete on September 05, 2010, 10:53:33 am
Idle observation here, but I'm not seeing a power supply large enough (I'd have thought) to drive a largish monitor.  That wouldn't be it, would it?
It's 12V input, external power supply. And it only draws about 1.2A, although the included power supply is rated to 5A for some reason.
Title: Re: Don't turn it on - take it apart! Then turn it on...
Post by: thedigitalprincess on September 07, 2010, 03:26:45 am
Rather not turn it on, but I found this failure on the street. It used to be an N97, so anyone interested in turning this on, let me know o.0 I keep it in my pencil case for good luck kinda.

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a268/needanexorcism/photooffail.jpg)