I am seriously considering an investment of the time, money and energy
required to build a video projector. With a bit of luck and patience it
seems quite possible to acquire the required parts for not much more
than £200.

There are several groups and websites dedicated to this kind of thing,
including:

http://www.lumenlab.com/
http://www.exclusiv-online.com/shop/index.php?main=main&lang=en&up=0
http://www.hommie.net/

Has anyone here attempted this?

Daniele
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Consideration fact
* With the robot the grudge which is possible it knocks from most
shouting distance.
* It is short accurate and it knocks.

I am seriously considering an investment of the time, money and energy
required to build a video projector.
Has anyone here attempted this?

Try uk.media.dvd and I think there`s a home cinema group as well that
will be more likely to have tried...

Possibly worth a punt over at avforums too...

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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I am seriously considering an investment of the time, money and energy
required to build a video projector. With a bit of luck and patience it
seems quite possible to acquire the required parts for not much more
than £200.

There are several groups and websites dedicated to this kind of thing,
including:

http://www.lumenlab.com/
http://www.exclusiv-online.com/shop/index.php?main=main&lang=en&up=0
http://www.hommie.net/

Has anyone here attempted this?

Daniele
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Consideration fact
* With the robot the grudge which is possible it knocks from most
shouting distance.
* It is short accurate and it knocks.


Lamps are very costly and a poor picture would be annoying. Why not try and
get a used one from a company that uses them for business presentations -
many will be upgrading to newer / smaller / brighter ones.

John wrote:

I am seriously considering an investment of the time, money and energy
required to build a video projector. With a bit of luck and patience it
seems quite possible to acquire the required parts for not much more
than £200.

There are several groups and websites dedicated to this kind of thing,
including:

http://www.lumenlab.com/
http://www.exclusiv-online.com/shop/index.php?main=main&lang=en&up=0
http://www.hommie.net/

Lamps are very costly

Not in these designs.

and a poor picture would be annoying.

But a good one would be nice.

Daniele
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Consideration fact
* With the robot the grudge which is possible it knocks from most
shouting distance.
* It is short accurate and it knocks.

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from "John" contains these words:

Lamps are very costly

Dide you visit the website? Their lamps are actually quite cheap.

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D.M. Procida wrote:
I am seriously considering an investment of the time, money and energy
required to build a video projector. With a bit of luck and patience it
seems quite possible to acquire the required parts for not much more
than £200.


Hi

I know this is uk.d-i-y but I really think you are wasting your time,
effort and money.

For the same price as buying all the bits to build one - and frankly it
will be a complete disappointment whatever you do - you could buy a
used LCD projector off eBay.

Steve

stevelup wrote:
D.M. Procida wrote:

I am seriously considering an investment of the time, money and energy
required to build a video projector. With a bit of luck and patience it
seems quite possible to acquire the required parts for not much more
than £200.

I know this is uk.d-i-y but I really think you are wasting your time,
effort and money.

For the same price as buying all the bits to build one - and frankly it
will be a complete disappointment whatever you do - you could buy a
used LCD projector off eBay.

Steve

Its actually very easy, if you dont mind low brightness levels. The old
epidiascopes were a black box with the illuminated picture on the back,
and a single lens 8" or so in front of it. And thats all thats needed
for a basic unit, a screen with as high brightness as poss and a lens.
You wont get particularly good light levels and large pics at the same
time, but adequate for some tasks.

So really it all depends.


NT

In article ,
Owain wrote:
I know this is uk.d-i-y but I really think you are wasting your time,
effort and money.

So do I.

Yes. When I first read it I thought Camm's Comics were alive and well.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(D.M. Procida) saying
something like:

I am seriously considering an investment of the time, money and energy
required to build a video projector. With a bit of luck and patience it
seems quite possible to acquire the required parts for not much more
than £200.

Simplest method (which I see is covered by one of those sites) is to
score a used LCD projection panel off ebay and stick it on an overhead
projector of decent output. Such combinations have been used for years
in the corporate world and are now being sold off cheap. It's ok if you
don't mind a darkened room.

I might give it a whirl myself...
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Dave