Comments on: What Should I Do With My Spare Monitor?

Question: What Should I Do With My Spare Monitor?

nam3d — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:42:35 -0800

I have a spare Dell 19" computer monitor lying around that I'm not using at the moment, does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do with it? (I'd like to re-use it somehow). Thanks, William

By: SirStan

SirStan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:59:42 -0800

Door stop? Kids computer? Second display?

By: RustyBrooks

RustyBrooks — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:09:18 -0800

Is it an LCD? You could make a high def projector with it (check out the info at lumenlabs.com). Although 19" is sort of the large end of the range you can actually build a projector out of, and requires more costly lenses than something like a 15"

By: DWRoelands

DWRoelands — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:24:15 -0800

If it can be situated nicely, and you have an old PC around, I'd turn it into a digital picture frame, of sorts.

Throw some free OS on an old PC, load it up with photos, and put some sort of slideshow software on it.

Bonus points if you set it up so can you can upload pics to it from one of your other machines. :)

Why do I think someone has already done this sort of thing?

By: brownpau

brownpau — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:24:59 -0800

Get a generic tuner box and some bunny ears (or a coax splitter for cable) and you have an extra TV.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:25:02 -0800

Wall-mounted bathroom RSS reader. Nice for shaving time.

By: Z1LCH

Z1LCH — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:48:48 -0800

One way to go really: Blub

By: Sufi

Sufi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:02:45 -0800

You could probably find a decent computer on craigslist for under $50. There's so much you could do with a second computer.

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:19:01 -0800

You're one subsystem on your way to a MAME box.

By: Geppp

Geppp — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:31:16 -0800

If it's an old CRT, you can turn it into a fish tank.