DIY transparent screen (cat not included)

[AndreaJames]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/19/diy-transparent-screen-cat-not-included.html

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[Richard_Kirk]

Ages ago I used to have an IBM Thinkpad. You could take the back and the light source off the LCD screen, and then balance it on an overhead projector to do a presentation. This was amazingly scary. However, if you had the sun coming through the window you could add a diffuser (a bit of shower curtain was the best) and you had a daylight readable monitor.

[Stove]

It was a nice way to use older monitors. less clear than the one in the video, but easy to separate the backlight from the lcd without breaking anything. If you’ve got a scrap monitor lying around it’s a quick and fun way to spend an hour.

[bolamig]

They missed the classic use case: filming an actor and the screen they are using in the same frame.

[phuzz]

I guess this is less surprising to all those people who habitually take things apart to see how they work.
Other people do that too right?

[fuzzyfungus]

If the things are very, very, good I even put them back together to see if they still work after I’m done…