hey guys,
thanks to all you great adventurers out there
and Drew! Yay!
, i've finally managed to start a build.
I got a 12x12 artzII wacom pad and
a dell 1503fp screen.
Since the 1503fp is a popular screen here, i'll just skip the dell disassemble.
It was actually quite straight forward. I just followed Drew's guide and everything came apart just fine.
Sorry about the photos, I know they are bad.
anyways,
here's the stripped screen.
Because of the two ffc and it's samsung panel I was hoping this panel is the same as Drew's.

I don't even know what these are called, here are some "other parts"
The ffc extensions are 40pin + 0.5 pitch



Looks like the panel was assembled by "Min-Kyoung Jung" from Section C

I had the exact problem as Drew. The damn screws won't unscrew.
So I also got a dremel and grinded the screws and then used a flat screw driver to take them out.
Now I know it's the same screen as Drew's, hehe


After unscrewing everything and a bit of pushing and pulling, everything came apart.

That's a big slab of plastic in there. Does anyone know what this is called?

Ok, slapped the LCD on top and everythings working. Although there's some drop outs every now and then.

I'm guessing it's the gap from the plastic frame.

Before the Dell 1503fp I tried a Westinghouse 15" monitor which had these wierd tubes in it.
I tried to make it work with this monitor but had jitters, drop outs you name it.

but I managed to salvage the "plastic slab" from the Westinghouse which filled the gap perfectly after I dremeled off a few cm at the bottom.

then I taped the whole thing together with electric tape. (Damn, i forgot to take a photo of that...)
and placed it on top of the tablet.
All worked, hardly any drop outs and no jitters.
Setting up the tablet was a real pain. The pointer is kinda underneath the pen but it's a little off. But aligns perfectly when it's in the middle of the screen. I had to settle with "map monitor 1" function because I couldn't understand the "Advanced Mapping" thing. But it's annoying because my MBP native resolution is 1440x900 but I have to set it to 1024x768 for the "cintiq" to work. Anyone have a tutorial on mapping the tablet?
I placed a 8.5x11 acrylic board on top of the LCD for protection but there were a lot of pressure problems. I couldn't get the pressure variation I wanted. But then I tried a piece of glass from a frame (2mm thick) et voila!!
Here's a video of the tablet in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS0uIuwZOs8I'm gonna get a piece of glass that can fit the screen and goes over the white plastic frame.
and then try to put it all back inside the wacom casing. Man that's gonna be a task.
Any cool ideas would be great.
