Earlier today, I was inspired to turn an old CRT monitor and make it into a helmet. So I took out some tools and dug out one of my dad's dying monitors (I'm not very keen on using it anyways) and started on disassembling the thing.
The disassembly process took close to an hour, even with a good deal of help from my mother. An irrelevant tab snapped off in the back and we had to snip several wires that were glued down, but other than that it went well.
A few pictures of the insides of the monitor:
(the heart of the machine, we had to be super careful with it because it's so heavy......)
(our hands were absolutely covered in the dust from that thing)
Cleaning the plastic frame of the CRT took me close to two hours. I had to dust, wipe, and then rinse every piece of the frame. It's all currently drying, but here's the pictures:
(it's upside-down and backwards so the box fan on the counter behind me can dry it better)
(there aren't actually any USB ports in the back of the monitor)
(fun fact: the frame shows that there are openings for a headphone and microphone jack, but when the monitor is assembled, these openings are not visible and there are no actual jacks inside the monitor)
Tomorrow I'll be cutting a hole in the bottom for my head, reassembling the frame, adding foam inside to make it all easier to wear, spraypainting the outside, and then cutting and tinting a sheet of plexiglass to fit the screen (my dad actually works at a plexiglass/acrylic company so the material will be easy to get a hold of). I'm hoping to attach the video in and power cable to the back for show and then seeing if I can maybe set up an LED on the inside-front frame so I can have a lighted power indicator.
thoughts/discuss/tips/etc
