Help with new Wii Laptop Project

[Boarlock]

Hey guys, I am new here. I have been watching a lot of ben heck shows on Youtube, and I really like his videos on turning stationary consoles, mobile. I looked up a bunch of videos about "mobile Wii's", and found plenty of Wii laptop videos. I thought that over the next few months, I could make one myself. Now I looked around my house for the parts I would need and got stumped for an LCD screen. Then I remembered I had a 7'' Mintek MDP-1770 that would make a great lcd screen. I took it all apart and now have the screen, connected to two circuit boards, one of which I have looked up and think it is an "inverter", and two speakers that are connected to the first circuit board. Now I have looked all over, but I can't seem to find a guide that will tell me how to hookup power, and a video signal to my lcd screen. I have an idea for the power, two wire leads from the inverter to the lcd screen one is red, and one is black, and beneath them it says 9V. So I think that is the power, however I have no idea for the video signal. Sorry about the blurry images, but that is the best I can take with my crappy phone, I can tell you what each circuit says if you need it. I would greatly appreciate any help, thanks guys.
http://postimg.org/image/kxn6fdirv/
http://postimg.org/image/jtygpo8qz/
http://postimg.org/image/cpgngn1hn/
http://postimg.org/image/km5q2m2bv/

 

[Shank]

Welcome to the forums! I would suggest attempting a less ambitious project before trying to build a portable. That way, you can learn electronics without spending a bunch of money destroying your console.

If your screen doesn't have composite input, then there is nothing you can do with it. You need a drive board with composite/component, or vga/HDMI if you run adapters.

Your pictures are too potato to identify anything. You are asking questions on specific hardware, but aren't giving us any clear pictures or comprehensible descriptions of the hardware.

 

[cheese]

As dyxlesci said, a portable Wii is quite an ambitious project for a first. I attempted a portable gamecube as my first project, and I broke my first gamecube within a month. I didn't even trim it. Then I fried a screen. I've broken well over $100 of parts up to this point, and still don't have a working portable .-. Had I started on a simpler project, the parts I broke would have been much less expensive...

However, if you still want to do this as your first project, from what I can see, in the first picture you have a driver board on the bottom of the screen (with the thin orange colored connector going into the screen), and an inverter for a CFL (which you should remove, and LED mod, like a PSOne screen). I cannot tell what inputs the driver board has however, the two connectors on the bottom of the board, what do they go to?

 

[legofan623]

Try and get a nice, clear, and bright overhead picture of the controller PCB like this:

http://i.xomf.com/nfgvc.jpg

 

[Bush]

The issue with the Wii is that you have to figure out a lot of things for yourself. We updated the sticky but as far as the software side of things goes, it's really up to you to figure out how you want to do it. The hardware side has a lot of preferences as well, like if you need to trim, or what controller you are going to use and how.