Mini Screen using replacement LCD screen for phone/tablet

[Hels205]

Hi,

So my husband thought I was techie enough for a raspberry pi for Xmas. My initial thought was - what the hell do I do with this? After a couple days of thinking I'm now full of far to many ideas.

One idea has stuck which is far beyond my techie knowledge.

If you can easily buy a replacment LCD screen for a phone/tablet - costs range from £10 to £100. Can these mini screens be adapted for use with the R-Pi? Is there a way of breadboarding a connector for these mini screens? Or is there a simple way of hooking up the cable supplied with an adaptor? So many questions but someone out there must know.

Just wondering. In the meantime I've yet to boot the thing up. I think my husband was right.
Thanks in advance for any replies. Apologies if I've just opened up a can of more idea's.
Helen

[jbridgs]

Hi,
I believe there have been multiple projects using things like the Nokia 5110 screens as a display for the raspi;

My first question would be "what do you want to use the display for?" - if you are wanting to display the raspi x desktop or command line for interactive use, watching videos etc, I would suggest looking at an hdmi compatible screen or building a converter for composite video.

If you want a less complex display for something like device status, a simple menu (or text adventure game), then a cell phone LCD would be fine to use via the gpio pins (I'd suggest looking at i2c to preserve your resources).

I don't believe we have drivers/data yet for the DSI interface, which I believe would be used for things like an iPhone display.

Cheers,
Jon