17" iMac G4 repurposed as an external monitor with resistive touchscreen

Submitted by jberg44 on April 4, 2010 - 12:39am

17" imac G4 running as a touch screen external monitor that can hook up to any computer via VGA or DVI. Shown here hooked up to a laptop running Windows.

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Submitted by DrBunsen on April 6, 2010 - 8:45am.

Are you planning a write-up on how you achieved this?

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Submitted by eeun on April 6, 2010 - 9:14am.

...is on his Dremel Junkie blog.
I found it by reading the blog name in the photo. Wink

Submitted by jberg44 on April 11, 2010 - 1:13am.

Sorry I was planning on copying over the whole build process from my blog, but its just too tedious and not really of any additional benefit.

For a full guide and parts list you can go to:
http://dremmeljunkie.blogspot.com/

For a video of the mod in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOm4hS_bvEA

Please feel free to ask any questions. Hope you enjoy!!

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Submitted by DrBunsen on April 12, 2010 - 10:50am.

Thanks, and kudos!