A little (10") companion screen with a retina flavour! (From Backup 17-June-2015)

The Retina Display

A funny suffix Apple use for Hi-Res panels which should not have "visible" pixels. 

The display used in this project is the one from the iPad 3 and 4...

Due to the high demand of replacement parts for iPads, it's easy to get one of this gorgeous panels for less than 60$, really cheap!

but what should we do with an iPad panel?

We gonna make it a little companion screen, with mini-displayport!

JUICY!

How to? 

thankfully these panels uses a new connection technology called eDP so it was some-how easy for the guys from Rozsnyo to produce a board to interface these screen with every Mac or PC with Displayport!

It cost 99$ but comes with both miniDP and fullsize DP the led drivers and button to control.

So its just a plug&play project for around 160$, but having a small screen with a stunning resolution of 2048x1536,

It's priceless.

Pictures and more info on the next post!

A little "preview":