How can I make this laptop display into a monitor?

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So I have a IBM thinkpad x41t that I bought awhile back, and unfortunately the soldered on ram died.

 

The thing was such a joy to draw on, I used to use it to draw templets in inkscape for my 3d characters.

 

Is there any way I can salvage the display and use it as a tablet for my desktop? It has a wacom digitizer so if it can be done it would be a great way for artists to get a very nice display drawing tablet for $40 on ebay, attatch it to a telescopic arm and it looks like it can be nice and ergonomic too. I kinda got inspired by the retina display video recently.

 

Pictured is a broken display that I later replaced, connections are intact. 

 

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Usually thats just impossible due to proprietary connections or parts of the displays innards inside the laptop itself.

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That first picture if of the Wifi antenna. So those will not work. 

You may be able to do it with a micro controller, if you figured out the pin-out of the connection.

 

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Tedious and not worth it, not even thinking about touch...

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some screens will work well with things like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/M-NT68676-2A-HDMI-DVI-VGA-Audio-LCD-Controller-Board-DIY-Kit-Power-Adapter-/121059321784?pt=US_Server_Boards&hash=item1c2fb2a7b8 But it would need the right pin layout message them with the screen you have and they might have something