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DIY High-Quality XGA Projector for ~$300

Posted by timothy on from the impress-the-ladies dept.

ranrub writes "Tom's Hardware Guide posted a guide to building your own XGA LCD projector from parts costing under $300. Major components are an overhead projector and a used 15" LCD screen. They even have a movie of the whole project on site! It's quite bigger and noisier than a standard projector, but most of our living rooms look like electronic junkyards anyway, don't they?"

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  1. Funk that Jim by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I'll spend the 300 hundreds and mod my PC case to dispense ice cold Bawls.

  2. TCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, its only $300 but let's look at the total cost of ownership here.

    Parts & Labor : $300
    Never getting laid again : Priceless

    I think I'll stick with something that doesnt alienate the dripping hot sluts always coming on to me here in my swinging bachelor pad.

    1. Re:TCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well you mean:

      I think with something that doesn't alienate the mythical dripping hot sluts that I always pretend are coming on to me in my parents basement which I pretend is my swinging bachelor pad.

      Lets put it another way:

      Well a homemade projector isn't going to get you laid, but NOT having a homemade projector isn't going to get you laid either.

      Your screwed (not in a good way) either way.

    2. Re:TCO by Lord+Kano · · Score: 2, Funny

      You really need a lesson in spin.

      My geekiness has gotten me laid on multiple occasions.

      Once you pass about 25 years old, women dig smart guys.

      I think I'll stick with something that doesnt alienate the dripping hot sluts always coming on to me here in my swinging bachelor pad.

      Dripping hot? Sluts?

      That's called "gonorrhea."

      LK

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    3. Re:TCO by peculiarmethod · · Score: 2, Funny

      And somehow you managed to make this post even more boring in 1/100th the time it took those events to occur.

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    4. Re:TCO by Bombcar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm. If I use a projector and walk up to the wall, all I see is a shadow.

      I keed! I keed!

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  3. JUNKyard? by xThinkx · · Score: 4, Funny
    JUNK!!!, I resent that! All of my scrap is functional.

    Now where'd I put that 486 laptop with the broken screen and half working keyboard

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  4. Re:I want one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    (Watching Empire Strikes Back)

    "Luke, I am-" *pop* Oops! Bulb went out!

    Hope you can afford $600 plus $300 plus $300 plus $300 plus $300...

  5. Would this mean that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    By a few modifications I could build my own Astral Projector?!

    (*ducks*)

  6. Junkyard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    most of our living rooms look like electronic junkyards anyway, don't they?

    No, our girlfriends keep that from hap--

    Oh wait...

  7. Honey, please stop posting here... by THESuperShawn · · Score: 5, Funny

    "but most of our living rooms look like electronic junkyards anyway, don't they?"

    We have been over this sooo many times. It's not "junk", it's my work, my life. How do you think we can afford the 75 pairs of shoes you have in the closet? What about the 17 gallons of makeup in the bathroom? I mean come-on, bathrooms are for manly noises and piles of out-dated Maxim-PC and Computer-Shopper. And I mean the real, phone book size Computer Shopper of yesteryear, not that wimpy little thing they print now. What's with that 1/2 film of hairspray all over the counter?

    Please, let me have my slashdot. You son't see me posting on your US Weekly forum do you?

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