Heya, I’m the guy who put this together. Let me know if you have any questions about it! I’ve had the setup for about a month now and absolutely love it.
On a side note, for anyone planning to buy a monitor please spend the extra bucks to get one with adjustable height, tilt and rotation if possible. And if you've missed that boat then grab yourself a monitor stand and a Vesa mount/adapter from Humancentric [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.humancentric.com/collections/vesa-adapters" rel="nofollow">https://www.humancentric.com/collections/vesa-adapters</a>
I love these. I had stopped tinkering with devices many years ago. These days you can't even replace the ram of a machine without spending a week making sure it is compatible. Nevertheless it is still possible.<p>I got my inspiration back after watching [DIY Perks](<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQo7nzH1sXVpzL92VesANw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQo7nzH1sXVpzL92VesANw</a>) on youtube. If you want a much more detailed instruction on how to build these screens, I highly recommend him. As intimidating as all our devices are today, all you need is to unglue the plastic housing to reveal their secrets.<p>PS: people love to throw away perfectly fine electronics. There is no shortage of practice devices by the dumpster.<p>Edit: typo
It’s been slim picking for 5K monitors- especially if you’re not on OSX where thunderbolt dispay output is much more complicated.<p>Besides the (now discontinued) Planar IX2790, which had severe quality control issues (went through 4- all with major dead pixels and burn-in), I don’t think there are any readily available DisplayPort-based 5K monitors out there :(<p>Feels like hidpi displays have pretty much stagnated outside of apple ecosystem
Very cool, but how exactly does that look less “hideous” than an LG UltraFine 5K?<p><a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HMUB2LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k-display" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HMUB2LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k...</a>
Cool stuff, but doesn't look like a setup I would enjoy. I hate it when in front of me there is a gap between monitors.<p>Instead, I am using a Dell 32inch directly in front of me, iMac 27inch to the right of me, and Dell 27inch portrait to the left of me.
Great project! I did a similar project 3 years ago to save the use of the great screen in a 2009(?) 24” iMac with a broken logic board. Learnt about LVDS and went the Chinese control board direction. First iteration was an HDMI cable poking out. Second interaction was integrating a Raspberry Pi for a new-old all-in-one PC - plus, it felt much snappier than the original Core 2 Duo workings from the Mac.
Tangential. Using my monitor in portrait mode has been a game changer for me. Now when I look back I wonder how is it that I wasted so much display space.
Very cool. I wouldn't mind having this. Right now my setup is my MBP and a 27 4K screen that I use as the primary. I thought about using two 4K or 5K screens and rather change to a Mac Mini, but in which direction would I be looking? If I'd look ahead with two screens, I would look at the space between the two screens. In other words, I actually prefer to have a "primary" screen and I keep wondering whether one actually needs another screen at all. What do you guys think?
Question, why would it require two displayport cables and two outputs from a video card? A displayport 1.4 cable and connection are supposed to support 5K at 60Hz.<p>Is that a limitation of the driver board?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort</a>
Someone should release a "kit"... the new boards and power supply could even sit inside a nicely designed backpack enclosure on the stand.<p>Is there any possibility of accessing the needed display connectors via the RAM door or via a surgical cut in the back case? Removing the screen is what I don't want to do.
Always wanted to do the same ever since I saw this project in german back in 2019. <a href="https://youtu.be/hzTVe6aVgww" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/hzTVe6aVgww</a>
I've seen similar builds like this on /r/hackintosh and other DIY.<p>Have you found a driver board that uses a single DP1.4? Two 1.2 would limit me to a single one and wanna run 2.
Nice work! I recently got an LG Ultrafine 5K for my MBP M1. Definitely not as sleek as the iMac. Though the all black/rugged look is growing on me.
Calling this "building an own display" is a bit of a stretch.<p>He just wired a panel, off-the shelf driver board, ac-dc brick, and put it into body.