Homemade projector

cirthix

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Aug 28, 2004
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bacically, get one of those projectors taht eachers use, (called an overhead projector) and an lcd. take apart the lcd, put the electronics on the side, with the lcd itself, without the backlight, right on top. focus it right and then worry about protecting electronics from damage. think it will work? yes/no? if you foulnd a large projector, you could try to adapt one of those 1920*1200 laptop pannels dell and a few others have... drool, what a beautiful projecotor, too bad u probably cant easily convert dvi into the laptop screen ( you could have a really slow laptop, boot off of a usb thumb drive, sell everything but mobo and power supply. get the slowest cpu u can get in there, practically no ram, no hdd, no optical, jsut motherboard. nothing fancy. maybe just use that to adapt video in to the lcd. anyone have good ideas on how to do this sucessfully?
before anyone comments about fuzziness, i pulled a hair out of my head during math class, and placed it on the projector near teh end of class. i could see it VERY clearly, were talking razor sharp, so it shoudl have no blur between pixels if its focused right. only downside i can see to this is that its huge, and hot, and noisy, but so are our computers!
 

Jeff7181

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Interesting idea... who cares how loud it is though since you can put those things 30 or 40 feet away from the screen... and now with wireless keyboards and mice... you hardly need to be in the same room as your computer to use it :D
 

whoiswes

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been done already - you need a VERY bright lamp to make this work, but otherwise, it's pretty much like you say.

head over to either the AVS Forums or HomeTheaterForums - do a search for diy projector (or just google it) and you should find several good threads/pages on the subject.