How have computers required us to live by their schedules? I have yet to use a computer which demands its users to accord to a strict schedule. If you are talking about IT, it's the same with any industry which requires maintenance; machines break at unfortunate times.
I think it's pretty presumptuous to assume what a scientist wants or doesn't want. The asocialism that you describe is hardly something inherent to computers, but rather around the culture of the modern business world.
I think this would be a fun elective once it achieves official course status (but there's just so many hoops and hurldes the professor had to jump through to even get the department to start considering it a real course).
I picked up a overhead projector and one of those LCD screens, and I got watchable results for a meager $150. You can make it brighter by using a metal halide as a light source and a lens instead of the overhead projector, though that will run another $50-70.
As good as homebrews are, they can never beat commercial ones in terms of color and quality. The best images I've heard of come from DLP's. The problem with any commercial projectors is that bulbs are really expensive ($300-400 a pop).
This forum has a lot of good information, as well as homebrew results.
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How have computers required us to live by their schedules? I have yet to use a computer which demands its users to accord to a strict schedule. If you are talking about IT, it's the same with any industry which requires maintenance; machines break at unfortunate times.
I think it's pretty presumptuous to assume what a scientist wants or doesn't want. The asocialism that you describe is hardly something inherent to computers, but rather around the culture of the modern business world.
I picked up a overhead projector and one of those LCD screens, and I got watchable results for a meager $150. You can make it brighter by using a metal halide as a light source and a lens instead of the overhead projector, though that will run another $50-70. As good as homebrews are, they can never beat commercial ones in terms of color and quality. The best images I've heard of come from DLP's. The problem with any commercial projectors is that bulbs are really expensive ($300-400 a pop). This forum has a lot of good information, as well as homebrew results.