I have an old Canon A70 that no longer works. I'd love to take the LCD
screen and repurpose it into some sort of mobile picture frame. The
LCD screen is a Sony AM309-3 A, and it's roughly 1-1.5". I've been
searching Google with no success... Has anybody done this before, or
have any suggestions on where I can look for hints on how to do
something like this? It'll be the first of such projects that I
attempt. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

wrote:
I have an old Canon A70 that no longer works. I'd love to take the LCD
screen and repurpose it into some sort of mobile picture frame. The
LCD screen is a Sony AM309-3 A, and it's roughly 1-1.5". I've been
searching Google with no success... Has anybody done this before, or
have any suggestions on where I can look for hints on how to do
something like this? It'll be the first of such projects that I
attempt. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!



LCD screens that have internal controllers can be controlled by a
microcontroller, but the screen in your camera would likely require some
very advanced engineering to make it work in anything else.

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wrote:
I have an old Canon A70 that no longer works. I'd love to take the LCD
screen and repurpose it into some sort of mobile picture frame. The
LCD screen is a Sony AM309-3 A, and it's roughly 1-1.5". I've been
searching Google with no success... Has anybody done this before, or
have any suggestions on where I can look for hints on how to do
something like this? It'll be the first of such projects that I
attempt. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!



LCD screens that have internal controllers can be controlled by a
microcontroller, but the screen in your camera would likely require some
very advanced engineering to make it work in anything else.

March 2007 issue of Elektor Magazine has an article on doing this with an
Alcatel alphanumeric display. It would be rather more difficult I think,
with a graphics screen, but it might be worth contacting the author of this
article to see if he has tried it. You can often contact their authors and
contributors through the forums on the magazine website.

Arfa

On Apr 7, 4:49 pm, James Sweet wrote:
wrote:
I have an old Canon A70 that no longer works. I'd love to take the LCD
screen and repurpose it into some sort of mobile picture frame. The
LCD screen is a Sony AM309-3 A, and it's roughly 1-1.5". I've been
searching Google with no success... Has anybody done this before, or
have any suggestions on where I can look for hints on how to do
something like this? It'll be the first of such projects that I
attempt. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

LCD screens that have internal controllers can be controlled by a
microcontroller, but the screen in your camera would likely require some
very advanced engineering to make it work in anything else.

Hmm... I still have the PCB that it's connected to. I guess I'd just
need to come up with some way to fool the PCB into thinking that the
camera is working and that it's in display mode. Still probably
difficult. I really have no idea how I'd do it. Just that it'd
probably be easier than taking just the LCD screen and trying to get
it to work.