Faux-CRT monitor designed to pair up with retro mini PCs to recreate CRT feeling — cute 8-incher puts retro design first by shoving a 60 Hz LCD panel behind a curved acrylic sheet

They built something like this for an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s 1980s computer paintings some years ago. They wanted to show the art on Amiga 1000s like the one he used, but both the computers and their CRT monitors were too flaky to manage, so they put a Raspberry Pi running an emulator in an Amiga case. For the display, they took the case of an Amiga monitor and mounted a OLED panel behind an acrylic sheet.

Back when Twitter existed, I followed some guy who DIY'd exactly this. The acrylic glass acted like a lens, so it didn't look curved, the effect was more like a Game Boy with the magnifying glass attachment.

I've toyed with the idea of buying a flexible AMOLED screen from Aliexpress and putting it on a curved 3d printed frame, so I can have real screen curvature. But they still cost ~1k€ for 13", way too much for a shits-and-giggles-project.