Acer Travelmate 4150 retrofitting to Raspberry Pi Laptop, Part 1

Re:Acer Travelmate 4150 retrofitting to Raspberry Pi Laptop,... by jerf on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:26AM (#13967488)

I'm interested in the results of this, but I'd suggest holding off and posting this to HN (and elsewhere) when the task is done. At the moment what we've got here is a goal and a disassembled laptop with absolutely nothing hooked up to the Pi, which is not really that interesting.

I'd also suggest that sufficiently interesting stories about why you couldn't manage to do this would also be interesting. ("I couldn't ever get the adaptor"... probably not interesting. "So I had to 3D print it, which was harder than I expected."... interesting. "I tried for weeks to get the RPi working and it almost sorta worked but it was only in monochrome and I couldn't figure out why."... interesting, and probably enough to trigger other people to want to help!)

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Re:Acer Travelmate 4150 retrofitting to Raspberry Pi Laptop,... by catdog on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:12AM (#13967816)

Indeed not a very interesting read at that point, the idea itself is nice but pretty obvious. There is also nothing concrete about tackling the hard tasks like power supply or interfacing with the keyboard yet.

The author only briefly talked about the LCD driver board but didn't even mention which one he bought let alone share any experiences how it worked out. A "look the screen shows the output of the pi now, thats how I did it" or "I tried … and the screen is still black, not that easy as thought" would have been a better start for submitting such an article series to a wider audience.

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Re:Acer Travelmate 4150 retrofitting to Raspberry Pi Laptop,... by mitola on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:45AM (#13967639)

Thank you for your kind reply. I will take that into account as you say, since when it will be hopefully more complete I'll publish an update.

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