DIY High-Quality XGA Projector for ~$300

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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TCO

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:TCO

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Honey, please stop posting here...

[THESuperShawn]

"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?