A Practical Guide to DIY LCD Projectors

Compu486 writes "Inventgeek.com has a new article entitled "A practical guide to DIY Home Projection". The guide covers the basic theory behind projection and provides a step by step guide for a "Practical" DIY LCD Projector. Although this topic has been covered before, the perspective they offer is refreshing."

Comments

Thats nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

In my day, we made our own movies using a light bulb and creative hand poses casting animal shaped shadows...

Re:Thats nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

You had a light bulb?! LUXURY!

In *my* day, we had to wait til lightning struck a tree and set it on fire to get any sort of light.

And when our branches burnt out, we had to go out of our caves to look for more sources of fire again.

Re:Thats nothing

[Mr_Matt]

Heh...here's another joke, from TFA:

Now I will say this on the note of the fabric store types: Not Geeks! These are the types of people that never get out and experience the world.

Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot. Hey, you're black too!

Finally

[mfloy]

Now I can finally watch my reality TV shows on a bigger screen. This is truely a fantastic day.

DIY Digital Projection

[LegendOfLink]

Nah, my idea is better. Re-wire a retina scanner to output a DVD stream, and then you've got the BIGGEST picture of them all.

Although I did see Matrix 3 in the IMAX, and it was a little scary to see Morpheus's face. I mean, the dude had like 2-foot pores!

Re:Argh! Enough already

[nitio]

well... you could connect your notebook that is on the crappy ugly shelf to the ugly loud useless rack and then project all your porn in your new projector.

Re:Perfect timing!

[Living WTF]

> that'll cut our costs by at least 400%

Your calculator was a DIY project too, wasn't it?

Hmmmm

[Phurd Phlegm]

I read one page--the one on "Theroy." I find it distracting when someone doesn't bother with even elementary proofreading. If the content is interesting enough, I can overlook it, but this didn't seem all that novel. Just so there'd be some discussion, I made a quick list of the first errors that sprang out at me in the "Theroy" page. Doesn't everyone know some pedantic jerk that will edit their stuff for them?

1. principals : principles
2. cheep : cheap
3. cellulous : celluloid?
4. threw : through
5. LCD's : LCDs
6. Simi-gloss : semi-gloss
7. portal : portable
8. Walmount : wall-mount
9. theroy : theory
10. togeather : together
11. its : it's
12. . : ?

    I anxiously await the first person to point out a spelling or usage error in my post--it's traditional.

Re:Hmmmm

[I confirm I'm not a]

I anxiously await the first person to point out a spelling or usage error in my post--it's traditional.

Dude! You misspelt "fuc... oh, forget it.

;-)

Re:Hmmmm

[sharkey]

Simi-gloss : semi-gloss

Actually, Simi-gloss is a brand name. Each can comes with its own painter-monkey.