He had enough parts on hand to add in an LCD panel and give it a CCFL ... hand were some smashed screens that had LED backlights and so the CCFL to LED backlight conversion project was born.

Sony has taken the wraps off a new backlight tech for LCD panels known as RGB LED. In really simple terms, it's similar to existing mini-LED backlight tech, such as that offered by the BenQ MOBIUZ ...

RGB LEDs reduce bloom and offer large panels at cheaper prices than OLEDs ... However, so far all of these LED backlight solutions have used a white (or blue) LED source. RGB LEDs replace this ...

so he had some narrow PCBs made and started working on his LED replacement backlight. He built a driver board for the LEDs, populated with left over components that he stripped from the LCD panel ...