Wall of fire
Friday, July 1st, 2005Work today was interesting, and long.
During the day, I was fiddling with this old LCD screen that we had scavenged from a laptop a while back. It was still working, so I figured we could find a use for it someday. I got tired of waiting, so I took it apart.
I got it down to a faintly transparent screen (you can barely see through it if you hold us up to the light) and some wire ribbons hanging off the left and right sides of it. Well I was messing with it today, and I remembered discussing lcds in one of my physics classes. I recalled a principle on how they work. If you don’t want to check out that link and learn about ‘em, shame on you. But the basic idea is that when you run a current over them, they become transparent. So, I thought, what would happen if I hooked up say, a 9V battery? So I did.
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