A way to improve the physical screen?

[ijabbott]

(12-06-2019 01:47 PM)eried Wrote:  I only see two doable hacks:

1) Extend the flex cable and flip the screen, patching (i.e. https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-6090.html) the firmware to "unflip" the output

You'd also need to twist the flex cable by 180 degrees, perhaps by a sequence of three flat folds of 120, -60, 120 degrees. (The key points are that an odd number of folds is required, and the ends of the cable need to be on the same line and pointing in opposite directions, something like _/\_.) I'm not sure what the minimum folding radius is on these cables, but there probably isn't enough room between the back of the display and the back of the case to fold the cable without violating the minimum radius, and maybe not enough vertical space to do the folds. It needs about 3.5 times the width of the cable (2*sqrt(3)) of vertical space to do the folds without having more than two layers of overlap.