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- I've got a broken iPad and I've got a Raspberry Pi Zero - it's a shame to see these old bits of electronics go into the landfill. Let's see what we can salvage and reuse.
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I made a magic mirror quite some time ago but just used a tablet for the display. I've been wanting to liberate the tablet and now's my chance. The donor iPad has been around the family quite a few times and is now beyond use. The batteries don't hold a charge and the screen is badly cracked.
Getting the LCD out should be straightforward, but I struggled quite a bit and bits of glass went everywhere. I'd recommend wearing safety goggles and also gloves for this procedure if your glass is already cracked.
With the LCD screen out we just need to do a quick trip to eBay for a driver card - the LCD in the iPad1 is model number LP097X02. There's a lot of driver boards available for these LCDs so you should have no trouble.
Wiring it all up to the Raspberry Pi Zero is pretty simple. The only tricky bit is getting power to the Zero. The video board does have a 3v3 output available but the Pi Zero has a regulator that delivers both 3v3 and 1v8 power rails from the 5v supply so we can't just feed in 3v3.
To solve this I used a small buck converter board that can take the 12v supply to the video board and convert it to 5v to power the Pi Zero. I hacked apart a USB cable to supply this to avoid having to solder some wires onto the Pi Zero.
All in all a pretty successful salvage project. The iPad screen works nicely and so far the Pi Zero is also working well.
I've got some plans to use the Pi Zero camera to make the mirror more interactive - so don't forget to subscribe!
Parts (shop around for all these as you can get them much cheaper):
Pi Zero W: amzn.to/3vtPjc4
Two-way mirror: amzn.to/3t2HJUi
Light Filter: amzn.to/3vu6tqg - you can get away with tinted acetate sheets if you can find them. Your local art shop may be able to help.
Driver board: www.aliexpress.com/item/10050...
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I have a stack of old iPads and other tablets from my gamed days - never knew I could salvage them and get driver boards for them - thanks!!!!
Cool! Didn't know that we could reuse these screens with generic driver boards... TIL
Btw, you can now use the RPi flasher to enable SSH by design. I believe the keyboard shortcut is CTRL+X or something similar, it will show special menu to configure the RPi OS.
They keep that well hidden! CTRL+SHIFT+X Really handy hint and makes things a lot easier. You can enable SSH, set the pi password, change the hostname and setup the WiFi connection.
So handy I thought I should share a video on it: th-cam.com/video/om8gGB3gyT0/w-d-xo.html
Woah! Well-crafted and very educational video. What an underrated channel
Great project 👍😀
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
My pleasure!
Very cool project and video to go with it!
Thank you for this video.
I got a dead iPad many years ago but couldn't find any good tutorials on how to bring the screen to life. But this is just perfect.
A little question. Can you also run the touch part of the screen with one of these driver boards?
Awesome work. 👍👍👍
Came here from reddit
Looks really good
Thanks!
I wonder if you can use a VNC app on the iPad that will connect to a pi to get touch screen capabilities.
Nice project. I have 2 ipad2 as possible donor for the LCD screen.
Great video, would be nice to know what software is around for magic mirrors with some tutorials on how to extend it
Great project! Now I've got something to do with the old broken ipads in my parts bin.
You can have a house full of magic mirrors :)
Nice one, Chris!
Glad you enjoyed it
You are just Awesome 🔥❤️
This is amazing. Wow. You could go into a side business repurposing peoples old iPads… I’m actually considering trying this out myself!
You can pick up pretty cheap second hand iPad screens on eBay - really cheap if you're happy with the odd dead pixel.
So cool !...cheers.
Thanks for watching!
Neat idea. It did look a bit bright at first but the tinting toned that down.. 2x👍
I was pretty disappointed if I'm honest - so I was really glad the tinting worked - it's now really good. You can't see the screen at all.
@@atomic14 yes made a big difference.
@@atomic14 Tinting tone is a great idea.
Can you use it on the newest iPad monitor?
maybe you can repurpose the speakers and add a microphone set to make it an assistant (google or alexa)
I was thinking that! The speakers from the iPad are really thin so would fit nicely behind the mirror. Couple that with the camera that recognised who is looking at the mirror and you've got something pretty crazy :)
@@atomic14 a nice extra touch could be a computer vision sign language recognition, it would be a great product for deaf/mute people. Maybe the Pi zero doesn't have enough power, but desoldering headers to a Pi 4 could work. A Jetson nano (and a thicker frame ;) ) could be the "ultima ratio"
@@photocromax Interesting, just thinking about a minority report type thing where you can just make hand gestures to control what's displayed.
@@atomic14 After I wrote last comment I found there are many machine learning papers detecting sign language and hand gestures in general, but I didn't deep dive to see if there is a re-trainable model.
Good video, advanced for me at the moment.
How did you use the fire tablet for the mirror?
I just stuffed the tablet behind the mirror and ran a full screen browser on it.
You are great !!!!
Thanks 😊
very very nice!
Thanks
Nice! I have an iPad 1 in my box of stuff, under the iPad 2, :)
Hey Chris! They do start to pile up, don't they.
Nice.
Absolutely trolling Edinburgh pedants like myself there by misspelling both Forrest Road and Princes Street! Good work ;)
Spelling never was my strong point :)
Brilliant project! Only part is how did you get the tablet screen to seem like it's reflecting when off? Ie: how did the tablet become a mirror?
I'm using a 2-way mirror - similar to this - www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MSJQLUL there are quite a few options so it's worth shopping around for a cheap price.
@@atomic14 At an escape room a ghostly figure appeared on the bathroom room mirror and i always wondered how they did that. I think you have finally pulled back the curtain. Thanks.
I have the same problem, can you tell me what sheets you used ? Acetate sheets ?
I went to a local art shop and asked for some tinted acetate sheets, I think they are probably used by architecture students for making windows in models.
Could you give the link for the buck converter? I'm also building a project where i would like to give power supply to the screen without extra cable, and could you please tell (or show) how did you "connect" it to that micro usb cable? You would help me out a lot
Something like this amzn.to/3zsrmqI would do the job. To actually connect it, I chopped up a spare USB cable and used the wires from that to connect it up.
Please provide a link to the proper driver board for an iPad 1. I'm not sure which one to purchase, or where to find one, actually.
Hi Elton, I've added a link to suitable driver board on Aliexpress. You can also search on ebay for "LP097X02" which will also bring up bunch of suitable driver boards.
Great vid. I’m using an old ipad display but I’m getting ‘no signal’. Did you adjust the config file? Cheers
Hmm, I didn't have to do anything special to get it to work. Might be worth trying it with your desktop/laptop.
@@atomic14 I thought as much from the video. I’ve ordered a new cable to see if that is the issue. Thanks for the reply
Hi can you add a link to the tint sheet you used. Thanks
I got it from a local art shop, unfortunately, they sold them by the sheet so I don't have any details on the actual product. It was described as "tinted" acetate sheet. This looks very similar - www.amazon.co.uk/Acetate-Transparent-Plastic-Binding-dyslexia/dp/B01B9RD3S8
Is there a driver board that also allows the touchscreen to work?
Unfortunately not - they are really proprietary to Apple.
I see, thanks! And thank you for the great video
I came from Reddit.
I think I'll stay 🙂
Welcome to the channel!
What a fun project of something that would otherwise be ewaste!
Thanks!
It will be a perfect project of you integrated google assistant on that
That's what I'm thinking. Actually making a properly "smart" mirror.
hi, can i ask you how did u connect the lcd to the board? how did u recognise the pins way?
I know this video is about 2 years old, but is there anyway to keep touch screen functionality with some controller board? I've had yet to find a video keeping touch screen.
Sadly not - at least I’ve not found anything that will do it.
@@atomic14 Damn. I've been searching for so long. I mean it would've been nice to keep touch functionality but I don't think it's possible.
Yeah, it's just too complicated to reverse engineer for anyone to bother. The only real option is to buy a separate touch digitiser and stick it on top. But at that point you might as well just get a fully functioning display with touch built in.
@@atomic14 That's true. Thanks for the response though.
couldn't the iPad motherboard could be wired to another battery source allowing the device to be rewired into a mirror device?
Hello does this still work bcuz I’m getting confused on the chromium part
Yes, should still work - run chromium in kiosk mode and it will take over the screen.
I like for any crazy idea I have, like I have an old Ipad, I have a raspbery pi, can I combine them? there is always someone out there who did it already.
The price of raspberry pi has skyrocketed. 🤦🏿♂️
Makes me want to build a full length smart mirror for my girlfriend
Too bad the driver board is the price of a display by itself
Is it an old iPad 1 or 2? Resolution is 1024x768?
It's an old iPad1 so 1024x768
Can newer ipads be used
:( sad not applicable for newer ipads