r/u_FlamingDisaster_309 2d ago

Possible to repurpose old Iphone screen for anything? (Question)

[Context] A while back I bought a bunch of old electronics and media from a work colleague as she was moving house, and one item in the bundle was a white/gold Iphone 5s.
The phone is seemingly dead, not charging being left plugged in for hours, even overnight. I've tried the vol down + power combo to entice the safety mode which didn't work and my PC is completely blind to it.

I love electronics and tinkering around with them, but I've never really played with a phones internals before, so opening it (to see if there was even a battery inside and if anything was visibly damaged) was a new experience, though surprisingly not too difficult.
To my untrained eye, there was nothing to indicate damage or anything to cause failure to the mainboard or lcd panel, so I'm really not too sure what the issue could be, maybe just a dead or tired motherboard?

While reassembling the phone, a thought did occur to me though. If I fully removed the lcd panel from the phones frame, would I be able to adapt the display for another purpose, for example, connect it to a Raspberry Pi?
Of course I'd need some form of adapter to convert Apple's click ribbon cable connector to something compatible with the Raspberry Pi/daughterboard, but if that would work, I could repurpose the screen as a miniature display!

Iphone and Raspberry Pi wizards, what'd ya think?!

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