--- title: Upcycling An IPad Into A Touchscreen Display For Your PC description: Tucker Osman reverse-engineered iPad touchscreen controllers to repurpose iCloud-locked iPads as external PC displays with full multi-touch support. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/upcycling-an-ipad-into-a-touchscreen-display-for-your-pc-mfodbqocw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Upcycling An IPad Into A Touchscreen Display For Your PC | daily.dev og:description: Tucker Osman reverse-engineered iPad touchscreen controllers to repurpose iCloud-locked iPads as external PC displays with full multi-touch support. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/upcycling-an-ipad-into-a-touchscreen-display-for-your-pc-mfodbqocw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MfOdBqOCw.png og:image:alt: Upcycling An IPad Into A Touchscreen Display For Your PC og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Upcycling An IPad Into A Touchscreen Display For Your PC **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tucker Osman reverse-engineered iPad touchscreen controllers to repurpose iCloud-locked iPads as external PC displays with full multi-touch support. The solution intercepts the SPI data stream normally sent to the iPad's SoC using a Raspberry Pi Pico, which acts as a USB HID device for Windows and Linux. While newer iPads use eDP for video, the touch functionality required recording and replaying initialization data streams. The project provides a practical way to salvage otherwise unusable e-waste into functional touchscreen monitors. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware](https://daily.dev/posts/turning-a-macbook-into-a-touchscreen-with-1-of-hardware-jumk9nuw2) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Linux 7.4 To Support The Raspberry Pi 10-Inch Touch Display 2](https://daily.dev/posts/linux-7-4-to-support-the-raspberry-pi-10-inch-touch-display-2-5dkdkf8sl) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I turned a $45 ESP32 touchscreen into a Stream Deck, and one big screen beats Elgato's fifteen tiny keys](https://daily.dev/posts/i-turned-a-45-esp32-touchscreen-into-a-stream-deck-and-one-big-screen-beats-elgato-s-fifteen-tiny--3mor5jy8g) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [IPhone Becomes A Bluetooth Keyboard And Mouse](https://daily.dev/posts/iphone-becomes-a-bluetooth-keyboard-and-mouse-upqfh9vo0) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple), [#embedded](https://daily.dev/tags/embedded), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware), [#raspberry-pi](https://daily.dev/tags/raspberry-pi), [#reverse-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/reverse-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/upcycling-an-ipad-into-a-touchscreen-display-for-your-pc-mfodbqocw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Upcycling An IPad Into A Touchscreen Display For Your PC","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/upcycling-an-ipad-into-a-touchscreen-display-for-your-pc-mfodbqocw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/upcycling-an-ipad-into-a-touchscreen-display-for-your-pc-mfodbqocw"},"datePublished":"2026-02-09T21:19:09.539Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T05:30:47.312Z","description":"Tucker Osman reverse-engineered iPad touchscreen controllers to repurpose iCloud-locked iPads as external PC displays with full multi-touch support. The...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7a33e0864e4e79a68591524479083e1?_a=AQAEunF","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7a33e0864e4e79a68591524479083e1?_a=AQAEunF","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hackaday","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hackaday","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--JhDfhy70--/f_auto,q_auto/v1767541814/logos/hackaday","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/upcycling-an-ipad-into-a-touchscreen-display-for-your-pc-mfodbqocw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"apple,embedded,hardware,raspberry-pi,reverse-engineering","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hackaday","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Upcycling An IPad Into A Touchscreen Display For Your PC"}]} ```