How could I interface a regular laptop display?

I have a 15 years old no more working laptop and I would like to use its display in my microcontroller project.
It has a flat VGA cable and a power cable.
How could\should interface it to e.g. an ESP32 ir some other microcontroller?

I have tried t search for some ST7735 module with VGA without success.

Does a search for "ESP32 VGA output" find anything useful?

I don't think that is a good idea.
Even if that is possible, you can use this display with very low resolution only:

@andyfar
if I see right in your picture you are using a 16 MHz 8 bit Arduino Nano.
Yes of course with such a poor microcontroller the resolution drops down

The propeller-chip which is an 8 core 32bit 80 MHz microcontroller
can drive VGA with a - let's say medium resolution
https://learn.parallax.com/tutorials/language/propeller-c/propeller-c-simple-devices/vga-text-display
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It is simply math: even for refreshing 640 x 480 = 307.200 pixels at a framerate of 25 pictures each second is 7.680.000 pixels per second.

If you really like to re-use the display you could buy a HDMI to VGA adpater and then use a raspberry zero as the "display-controller"

Though quite some effort to re-use your old laptop display
it might be easier to buy a used android tablet with WLAN and a browser-app
and then create a website with ESPUI in the ESP32 code.

If you describe in detail what you want to do
alternative suggestions can be made

best regards Stefan

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