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Guess I was just thinking laptop screens. It would make sense that all tablets and phones use ribbons.

You're from Chester County too, eh? Shame how Ryan went out, but... yeah. That's how it goes when you live your life like that. Not sure what you mean by both have individual fire records. A trigger pull is a trigger pull. That's what is logged. Stun gun has a record. Taser has a record. They are individual units. Sorry for the confusion.

I thought of this. Here's some catches: Let's say you rip out a screen from.. I dunno... an old kindle fire. There's a small bundle of wires and a connector that fits onto the board. That wiring schematic for the screen is important... so you'll want to know what wire does what, i.e. red/white wire is red colors, green/white is green colors, green wire is ground, black wire is positive, white/brown might be data of some sort. There's going to be quite a few. And good luck finding a wiring schematic for some of these devices. You might need an external power source. You MIGHT be able to power it off of USB. The wiring schematic should have power requirements. Then you'll have to translate each of these wires to the RPi monitor cable equivalent. Some of the wires may or may not match up. Hack around a while... trial and error... If you got all this to work so far, then great. If not, then you might need an additional controller board. Disclaimer: This is all speculation. I haven't tried this. I wouldn't mind trying it... I'd love to use an old dead laptop screen as an in-wall bathroom netflix device. All this aside, buying the screen would be easier, but not as fun.

Guess that means I'll have to lower my caffeine intake so I won't shake like a Parkinson's patient. It's a very tiny board. It's a worthwhile project too, and somewhat cheap. I've had this in my wish list for too long anyway: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QU25JNA/ref=s9_hps_bw_g469_i3

Good point. What about for stun gun use?

I've taken the full ride standing (police issue stun gun). My body did try to run, though. I was afraid to take the taze. I was told that it's more of a "pain compliance" thing with the contacts of a stun gun, rather than full on NMI with the fired probes of a taser. Both have individual fire records with the LEO versions. I can't imagine you would be able to modify the weapon's discharge voltage, but I'm willing to bet you can read/write fire records. It would be bad if a record were modified to mask an offense. I'd be curious to see if this thing could carry a payload.

I've opened the pcb project from their github page with KiCad. I'm fairly sure I can easily send off the pcb to dirtypcbs or something, but that doesn't include all the electronics and IC's that need to be on the board. How do I get the end-to-end product built? Who does this, or do I need to dust off my soldering skills?