« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2006, 02:41:19 PM »
Built a video projector Friday out of an old 15" LCD display with a dead backlight, a surplus old high school overhead projector, a computer fan and some foam core board and the neighbors garage wall (screen). Disassembled the monitor to take the LCD screen element with boards and VGA cable out and placed it on the overhead projector. 12v computer fan to cool it and foam core to crop the image and block some stray light. Pluged in a laptop with a DVD drive and voila! Watched surf & concert movies on a 136" projected image in the back yard all night (largest image that would comfortably fit the wall), giggling occasionally like little girls.
DIY projector site: http://www.lumenlab.com/diyprojector.php?ref=
They DIY the whole projector with lenses, box and light source in addition to to the old LCD monitor element.. image is probably brighter than an overhead projector, but we didn't have to build a box or work out the light source or focusing. Just too easy. Total geek boner.
I guess you'll be surfing the 'hoff bikini thread on this one then?
+T for messing with DIY stuff.
Richard
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