DIY Animation Light box from old LCD screen.

  

    Animation Lightbox can be somewhat expensive and old LCD screens with the broken screen are somewhat useless, Basically, an LCD screen is essentially a lightbox with an LCD panel attached to it. So we are converting it to an animation lightbox.

WARNING: LCD screen especially the one with CCFL backlight contain a HIGH VOLTAGE inverter and capacitor in switching power supply circuit may have some residue charge even after unplugging, CCFL tube may also contain some mercury.

 

 

    For this project, you need an LCD screen with a functional CCFL or LED backlight, Some LCD screen will automatically turn off if no signal was connected and will not work unless the circuit was modified. this unit just showing NO SIGNAL text on the screen for a long time so no modification to the circuit is needed, My screen is 15 inches Philips 150B3.

 

    Disassembly the LCD monitor and remove the LCD Panel (The front glass with ribbon cable)  Carefully not to damage the backlight or the circuit board and assembly it back.

 

    Before put on the front bezel, Apply the electrical tape on any exposed metal frame

 

 Finished.

 

 Powered On.

 

 

Electricity consumption test.

 

With clear acrylic sheet and homemade peg bar taped on.

Wacom intuos pen grip

    Has used a Wacom tablet and it's working great, But personally, I have a feeling that the grip was a little bit too slippery and thin for my likeliness.
    Tried search for many mods but couldn't find one that fit on Wacom's pen while still allowed the side rocker switch to be usable.

    I found this foam pencil grip at my local stationery shop, they are very cheap and sold in a pack of many colors, but unfortunately, it was too thin for my Wacom Intuos pen, so I try to cut it open and with a little dab of blu-tack to hold it in place, was working perfectly.

    This doesn't require any modification on the pen and the side rocker switch still working properly.
    After using this for a while I feel that the pen required less gripping force and was reduced my hand strain by some degree. Through this more of individual preference.