How do I make a removed cell phone screen play a video loop?

[lucidvisions]

Hello, I might be way out of my league on this one but hopefully someone can help me out. I am a glass blower/artist and am looking to incorporate video in some of my pieces. I have seen one person do what I'm trying to do but I can't get the info I'm looking for.

I want to take a removed cell phone screen and have it play video on a loop. I am not an electronics expert at all and I'm sure this is a more complicated idea than I think but I felt I'd just throw it out there and see if anyone can help me out.

The final piece would just have the screen and the necessary electronics and power supply to make the screen just play video and no need for it to have any other of the previous phone's functions.


Thank You!
Josh Bergesen
Lucid Visions Glass Art

 

[Ian]

The only easy way to do this would be to manually play a video on a loop... and then not to touch the phone . Taking it apart and then trying to tinker with it is much more difficult that you'd think - you'd need to re-write code if you wanted to get it to play video only. If you wanted to drive video on just the LCD (without the rest of the phone), then things get even more complicated.

There are some alternatives to getting a little LCD to play videos on a loop. If you have a google for "lcd photo frames" you'll see lots of examples of devices which are often just an LCD + memory card slot. You can usually play videos on these too, so you could just embed one of these in to whatever it is you need. It's not ideal, but cheap and may do the trick.

If you have a link to an example where someone has managed to hack a phone to do this, then post it here and we can see what they did.

 

[247electrical]

I think that need more advanced electronic equipment.


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