While I was browsing some old photo of my hardware "collection" I stumbled upon some pictures of this little hack that I made some years ago and thought to post here just for fun.
Well the thing started with an ADC only Apple Studio 17" flat panel display with a broken panel and a Samsung SyncMaster 173P in a very rough shape, with broken plastic and missing it's base but still working.
I didn't have any intention of repairing the SyncMaster and had no use for an ADC only monitor, but an Apple Studio with VGA and DVI sounded like a fun idea so I basically transplanted the gut from the SyncMaster into the Apple Studio case, not a very difficult job, the panel and the pcb fitted very well inside the studio display, the samsung only had one button for the power switch (all the control, brightness, contrast, etc is done via software) that I made to work with the original soft touch switch of the studio display.
In the end the monitor looked good and worked as intended, I've never had time to fix the input port in a better way (always had it dangling in the back), I used it as a secondary monitor for quite some time but now it's retired and stashed somewhere in the house.
Here's some of the picture:
Well the thing started with an ADC only Apple Studio 17" flat panel display with a broken panel and a Samsung SyncMaster 173P in a very rough shape, with broken plastic and missing it's base but still working.
I didn't have any intention of repairing the SyncMaster and had no use for an ADC only monitor, but an Apple Studio with VGA and DVI sounded like a fun idea so I basically transplanted the gut from the SyncMaster into the Apple Studio case, not a very difficult job, the panel and the pcb fitted very well inside the studio display, the samsung only had one button for the power switch (all the control, brightness, contrast, etc is done via software) that I made to work with the original soft touch switch of the studio display.
In the end the monitor looked good and worked as intended, I've never had time to fix the input port in a better way (always had it dangling in the back), I used it as a secondary monitor for quite some time but now it's retired and stashed somewhere in the house.
Here's some of the picture: