I was able to fix the TATE mode sliders with a printed socket on the side of the case. The beige was a filament I have not been able to source more of yet so I couldn't reprint that for you. I have been thinking about how I could make it tilt easily, but it may require a major design change. Though thinking about a custom stand with a tilt mech might be possible, I'll see what I can come up with.

It's really awesome that they are using retina displays from older iPads considering that there's millions of ipads that are either unsupported or broken in one way or another.

Crazy to think the retina iPad is already nearly 10 years old.

That's a really great idea for re-using old obsolete iPads. LCDs in Apple devices are top notch. I would love to have a small display like this for use with a Raspberry Pi or some other SBC. And with a case like this with plenty of unused space, you could just shove a Pi inside of it and have a nice retro-themed Linux PC.

You know what would be funny, the weeCee you recently featured hooked up to this. Double mini combo

That is such a good idea as there are literally hundreds of thousands of old iPads with retina displays gathering dust.

Oooooh, if this tiny monitor had the weeCee build into it, we would have our 90's PC mini. The case of this monitor should have enough space to even allow some extensions to the weeCee like extra ports. The SOM304RD52PINE1 (seems to be what weeCee uses) is supposed to support PCI as system bus. I don't know if it is possible to break out a pci slot out, but if yes that would mean 3d acceleration could be added to weeCee too. Or instead with the MISTer built-in. How amazing that would be!

For the removable sliders, easiest way would be to create a small crevice under the slider area where you can poke the slider so it balances and keeps it's place under the pressure of monitor.

For the full CRT experience, you need to hot glue a crap ton of lead weights inside.

Great blurb, was intrigued when Bob from RetroRGB had this on a few months back and had to make one myself. Bob shows how little latency there is with his precision lag tester. Its such a nice little display, lightweight & looks fantastic. Nice to reuse an old iPad I was about to recycle.

beating the mine cart level in DKC in one shot is the most cracked shit ever

Regarding lag, there’s a utility ROM out there called 240p Test Suite for the SNES that has a manual lag tester that works very well. The same person that made that, has made ROMs for multiple systems. That’s just the first one that came to mind. It also has a ton of other utilities built into it, especially for CRTs.

Needs a slightly curved clear plastic lens on the front to give it the CRT shape at the front.

The perfect thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning! Love your videos!also the color looks great with the resolution. Even looks good rotated. Got to love some Galaga!

What a brilliant idea. I love it on so many levels. Thanks for sharing and the link in the description.

I like the Trinitron vibes it gives off, just because seeing the "classic" old woodgrain tv cases with a flat screen doesn't go together... It has to be round. But now I have some ideas... I didn't know there were adapters out there for old ipad screens.

Clint here blasting through Galaga like a champ. GG on that challenge stage by the by. This is a pretty neat little monitor, I will say.

Cool little LCD & enclosure. Glad to see you enjoying the start of your MiSTer adventure & looking forward to hearing your impressions of it after you've explored a bit! A couple things that might help you run the higher resolution there are turning on the DVI mode in the ini (if you can/are willing to connect it to external audio from the optical out- use a DAC with optical instead of the analog 3.5mm audio output for best audio quality) and also setting the framebuffer to automatic mode (fb_size=0 in the ini). This can make backgrounds in the main menu blurry, so to get around that you can make a [menu] section at the bottom of your ini with fb_size=1 under it, then the framebuffer will remain full-sized while in the main menu, but still be set to automatic (fb_size=0) when using a system/core.

Heh. Funny story. So i was working with a Taiwanese representative some time ago, just around the turn of the LCD (when they started becoming something a person can afford to buy) and one of the things he had in his office was CRT shells, with LCD screens inside them. I asked him "what's the purpose of this contraption" and his reply was somewhat along the lines of "people don't trust these 'newfangled' things so we're giving them something familiar but better instead". I've to say, seeing thie is just about the most amusing thing i've seen in years. Mostly because it made me chortle just as much as that one did, back then.

Wooow I love that texturing on the front and back. I didn't even realize it was a 3D print until you mentioned it, and then turned it around to reveal the layer lines and a bit of sagging around the screw holes. But as much of a 3D print snob as I am, I think this was really well done. :o

What a cool 3D printed project. Am sure there will be many improved versions to come.

Looks cool! I like the beige color!

The mister Fpga is one of the best projects for preservation, ever!

Nice!!! I like how it looks.

Even when someone else is playing, Mine Cart Carnage STILL gives me anxiety.

Cute little monitor!

Hey laserbear, nice job on 3d print. Nice texture on front bezel (edit: and back!) Great job! Recycled screen, sweet.

Amazing! This would fit perfectly with a PiDP-11 computer kit!!!

I really like how you add photos to this video while you're describing the tilting mechanisms of old CRTs haha. 11:50

Agree. Needs a tilt stand. It’s a good start tho. Maybe an add on will come out for that. One of the coolest things I’ve seen.

This is so cool! I’m going to have to try to get an older iPad to make one of these with!

FINALLY. I was wondering when someone would do something like this.

A great way to reduce e-waste! We need more stuff like this.

This reminds me of those hollow CRT looking screens in the original Star Trek. Well, even moreso the 2005 iteration where they’d actually stuck an LCD in there and it was made shallower than the original props.

The blue saturation seems a bit too high, but the low latency is a huge selling point. Would love to see a composite/svga capability added to this for even more retro fun. Monitors with anything but HDMI are starting to become rare.

WeeCee plus this screen = ultimate retro PC gaming rig.

I appreciate the vertical orientation of your lightswitch coverplate screws.

Had my MiSTer for nearly two years now. Absolutely love the thing😃

Impressive perfect on the Galaga challenge stage!

This with a built in weeCee option would be awesome too.

Awesome invention, all the fun without the risk of implosion 🤣

That flickering adds to the CRT theme

The best part is that you can salvage a retina display from a broken iPad and hook up other sources of imput to it. That's something I can stand behind!

Oh god, I love it!

Reminds me of the "Mini Retro Electronics from Japan" video by *Techmoan.* I'm glad this concept is catching on, though a swivel monitor stand would be nice (perhaps using a weighted wrist rest to keep it from toppling over), or mounting holes to use with a modern monitor stand.

I definitely would like a little Gadget like that. I would probably use it alongside retroarch.

I'd love a similar concept for larger flat panel monitors (27 inch and the like), it'd go great with my sleeper build

the sync issues are likely it not being a high enough quality hdmi cable. It probably needs to be HDMI 2.0 capible. But there's a lot of other little potential varibles with DIY displays and FPGA stuff that it could still be something else. I love my MiSTer setup, but troubleshooting stuff can be a pain in the ass sometimes

Someone finally did it. I was just saying why hasn't anyone been doing this.

OMG.... I LOVE THISSSS!!!!!!

"It has a killer refresh rate." - Dade, Hackers

A mountable 3D printed foot (looking like one from old school monitors) that can be mounted on the bottom or on each side (maybe with some holes or slits imitating old school monitor vents on sides that double as a place to connect the base) would be perfect, I guess? It would also solve that problem on the back and allow for better angle adjustment.

I've had one of these since he first launched the case, and had one waiting for several months before it even.

For the sidestand problem a better solution would be a grooved stand to hold it in position and some sort of a lock like tripods. Or something like a ratcheting groove but will have bad locking performance unless properly designed. The stand would be an easy thing...if only 3D printers can print out a quarter of a sphere without requiring all that support extrusions, you look at old CRT monitors and they usually had a spherical swivel to point the monitor up or down, but it uses the weight of the CRT itself for stability. So the ideal solution is a weighted stand *which can be easily switched over onto the side when needed* so it is a combo solution!

Awesome blerb! Another idea would be to integrate the FPGA board into the monitor case and have a fully portable console. :-)

The monitor looks like CGI from that position and with that lighting when you were playing. :D

Pretty cool, it would be neat to pair this up with the mini consoles.

The texture of this case is looking great! How does this work? Did it require post postprocessing?

Kinda want it, not gonna lie....hope they got the same color....I love new tech with this color!

I bet this would look great with a high quality crt shader with some bloom effects.

Yeah, that level is also _MY_ test for latency because I never realized how much it mattered UNTIL I kept dying repeatedly. There is one jump at the end that isn't _impossible_ but you have to prepare for it and react before you think you should to jump, so if you don't have that problem ... latency is good!

This thing looks so good, I wish all monitors had black levels that nice. My Dell IPS monitor has very washed out blacks and terrible backlight bleed.

Adding swivel via a VESA mount seems like a no-brainer.

Now all I can think about is to see two recent LGR videos combined. That WeeCee system connected to this LCD monitor, and playing some Dungeon Keeper and/or Quake it.

Given the fact that the design seems more like a TV than a monitor, you could fix both the visual and functionality of the case by making the sides flat and taper back at the right angle to just sit in Tate orientation without the stands..

Jeez, Clint was kickin some major Galaga ass fr fr. I played it the other day and it wasn't nearly as easy as I'd remembered lol. Major Galaga lol, sounds like a bad 80's computer centric movies Military figure.

part of me wants to see 2 slightly different versions of this, one that can support an itx motherboard and maybe a low profile graphics card, and a 7.9 inch ipad mini version of this, all with the options of stands. i think those could be really really fun! (especially the ipad mini version, i really want a tiny dedicated display that looks super retro that runs old sailor moon episodes all the time as the coolest decoration thingy ever. like you could put a raspberry pi in there and you could do so much omg)

AWESOME! I think you should make a nice thick solid brass metal case for your MiSTer and ground the metal. It might fix your full res dropouts.

Idk if it’s the way you filmed it but those black levels look really good

This is such a cool thing that ive wanted for so long, only wish i could buy a full bundle with everything installed rather than the case and setting it up myself. Still great though!!!!

Clint got them mine cart moves

Wow it's a cool project and in the future TRC would be rare and rare to find, this could be a good replacement

that was my favorite level and music of dkc1

That thing looks nifty

Nice video, keep it up, thank you :)

And is lovely nostalgic beige.

YO a Mini iMac SL version of this would be so cool!

You're pretty good on DKC.

I feel like this would pair well with that WeeCee you recently did a video on

When he launched DK: Country, I had a mini stroke; I didn't know how popular it was until now.

It would need a stand this tv. Love this fake crt idea 👍

Now that is cool.

I would guess the flickering is due to vsync_adjust=2 on the MiSTer, so it's using a custom pixel clock that matches the original system(s) as opposed to something more typical for an LCD. That's obviously a good thing for latency and smoothness, but I'd imagine it could be tricky with cameras.

Doing an iPad LCD mod for my Macintosh sleeper build!

I think that it would benefit from a photography tripod mount on the bottom and the side: Cheap, easy, and you could use a small table-top tripod to adjust the angle

that is a great idea

The image dropping out at the higher resolution could be the cable you're using not being good enough to reliably send that much data.

You could probably drill some holes in the bottom and side, bend up some paperclips and epoxy them in place for a tilt stand. It wouldn't be adjustable, but it would be good enough until they come up with something adjustable.

Simple solution for the kickstand, make the strips tapered.

Nice! I love 4:3 monitors myself. In my opinion, they are better than 16:9 because, you can sel low resolution and quality will stay always the same. Unlike on 16:9, where, if you set low resolution, image will look like crap. That is why i'm using Smasung SyncMaster 940BF. I also have some other monitor, which i forgot the name of, but it is 1024x768. Sadly, it has a problem. That screen have a big black hole on the screen that looks like someome burned it out. I don't know where that hole came from, cause i packed that monitor and put it away, but when i unpacked it, i saw that burned hole in the monitor.

Definitely needs more work imo but that is pretty cool. Wonder how well one of those bare LCD panels they sell for the Raspberry Pi is though, or those cheap security monitors. Namely since you can actually get them with resolutions as low as 640x480 (native) last I saw.

A cool improvement to this would be a semi-transparent LCD display that would be an overlay on top of the main display. The overlay would produce the scanlines and other CRT artifacts automatically scaled to the resolution of the main display. Almost like a hardware version of CRT Royale. If feasible, something like this could a solution for those who want the CRT experience without the CRT. Which could be a big hit among retro game enthusiasts.

thanks for video. I wish I can find at least 20" LCD with 4x3 ratio for TATE mode for Mister.

It will need also a third speaker to get correct stereo effect for portrait mode (with a rear switch to change audio output between landscape and portrait)

That's a nifty case design. I'd absolutely pick up the parts to make one, if shipping wasn't so painful from the US to the UK (this isn't a problem with Laser Bear, it's a general problem). I wish it was possible to buy the STLs to print it myself, although I can see why they wouldn't want to sell them: you can stick commercial exploitation licences on things, but as a small business trying to enforce them is probably near impossible.

I prefer my tiny monitors to have TUUBZ! =P Jokes aside this is a great little novelty.

I wonder how the speakers they used compare to the speakers in the actual iPad they took the screen out of; I was pleasantly surprised when I got my first iPad and the sound quality was better than the desktop speakers I had at the time!

For sound, what about some of those 2.1 tv speakers? If all new parts, they have those small woofers from Pyle, and front speakers could be gotten at the same place. Stand wise, looking at those front covers from the defender case. Also small phone stands, those could be modified to be integrated into the bottom, while the sliders are modified to click locking them into place.

Would love this for screen resolution experimenting

I would use it as a little secondary display for my main setup for just monitoring temps and stuff. Have an ultrawide so that is about how much use it would get from me Lol.