I’m going to get the commercial screen and controller from Adafruit. Not sure which one, but definitely one of them. While I could hook up a controller to the laptop screen I have, and I will for a different project I’m sure, I would be stuck with a 4 amp draw. 4 amps are going to murder any battery pack I can put together. Obviously, this was probably true of the original laptop as well, but I’m supposed to be better than that.
Future endeavours though, first I want to replace the CCFL with LEDs. This alone should probably make the numbers a lot better. Second is looking into my own driver. I just want to see where I can take it.
Peter's stuff.