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Being hackers, sometimes we just want to hack something together, not engineer it. This projector is a great example. Made mostly out of cardboard and duct tape (or duck tape if you prefer). He picked up a 12v LED array, a cheap fresnel lens, an LCD from a “back up monitor” and a focusing lens taken from a magnifying glass. Sure, we’ve seen better, much better. But seeing an evenings worth of feverish wire twisting and taping is always pleasant. It may look pretty dim in the video, it may be as well, but keep in mind that it is common for them to appear much brighter in person or if shot with a night setting on a digital camera.
INSTRUCTABLES BOOOO!!!!!
It may be dim, but this is really the ‘bottom barrel’ projector you could build. One should be able to easily upgrade some of the components and get some performance boosts. A++ for ingenuity and cost-effectiveness though.
WALT BOOOOO!!!
BooBerry cereal…BOOOOO!
(berry)
Very impressive.
Mockingbirds, BOOOOO! (Radley)
Oh man why do people keep using the abomination that is instructables?
macgyver?
Really impressive. Needs an LED driver to be able to call it a finished project, though…and maybe a bunch more tape and cardboard.
Have I missed something? Is instructables the new cool thing to hate? …. Hmm should I have my own opinion … nah! Just keep on hating with the pack! BOOOOO!!! err… WHATEVER’S WORTH BEING BOED AT!!!
First I thought this was really crap when I saw the bad picture quality.
But, while I wouldn’t call it impressive, it’s pretty cool, and definitely a nice hack.
Rick Steves FTW!
I made something similar back in 2007 using CFLS bulbs, a PS-One screen, RPTV lens and some knex. You can see it here. http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21366&st=0
If anyone is intersted I still have it and can take some more pictures of it.
INSTRUCTABLES HOORAY!!!!!
Trolls need to eat too
:)
Looks as the projector works pretty well considering what it is.
So Instructables is the new Arduino?
where are the links to the actual image of what it produces?
lol, when I saw the title first, I implied something that ‘projects trash’.
Did you say “Boo” or “Boo-urns”?
I was saying boo-urns….
I’ve been using instructables for years and until hackaday gives us a forum and a wiki or other place to post, I will post PROJECTS to instructables
i’ve made the cheapest projektor and mulitouch screen possibe. total cost: 50$ :D
http://fufufuafterhours.blogspot.com/2009/06/diaskop-lcd-webcam-multitouch-sceen.html
fufufu that thing is epic, you should send it in for hack a day and show how you made it!