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layout: post
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status: publish
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published: true
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title: Creating a wall dashboard with an old laptop screen
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author: Julien Lengrand-Lambert
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author_login: jlengrand
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author_email: julien@lengrand.fr
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author_url: http://www.lengrand.fr
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categories:
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- work
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- fun
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- development
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tags:
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- bash
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- experiment
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- dakboard
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- dashboard
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- work
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- startup
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- hack
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comments: []
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---
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Heyo,
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The past year, I've had a growing need for a dashboard to check what's coming.
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Lots of things to take care of for the baby, my girlfriend leaving couple days a month on average, keeping all family visits in mind, but also checking the weather of the day to know how to dress the little one.
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Looks like having a baby requires you to get organized a little more :).
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Luckily, I had an old laptop screen laying around for such an occasion, and I had a couple Raspberries on the shelf. So I decided to get to the task.
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## Getting the hardware together
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So the first thing to do was to get all the hardware needed for such a project:
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* An old laptop screen
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* A raspberry pi, with a power cable
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* An inverter kit to convert the LDVS laptop output to HDMI such as [this one](https://www.ebay.com/itm/HDMI-DVI-VGA-Driver-LVDS-Inverter-Kit-Convert-a-Bare-Laptop-LCD-into-Monitor-/111115624120).
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* Another power cable to power the screen
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* An HDMI cable to connect the screen to the pi
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The cool thing with the inverter kit is that it will allow you to control the screen (brightness, on/off, ...).
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[Image of the buttons to control the screen]
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The inverter kit is pretty simple to connect :
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* One input for the power cable
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* One input for the control board
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* One input for the actual screen signal conversion.
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You just have to be careful to choose the right type of inverter for your screen.
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Once everything is connected, you essentially have a computer in front of you and the next step is to start working on the software side of things.
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## Setting up the Raspberry |