total0solar0eclipse (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

what is this song ?

faukishah (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

watched this on Fri. bought OHP on Sat 185 USD.Came home and ripped off my 14" lCD monitor. discarded the original lcd screen lamp. re attached the data cable to the LCD screen from the CPU. I placed the LCD 1 cm high on the OHP top. covered up the open electrical connections and switched it on.WOW. last night I attached 8 w speakers. and watched SPARTACUS 9. (whore) once again .No Sir. it was better than many MM Projectors.

spudinator2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@dantheman012008 the back-light on the lcd is not nearly bright enough to satisfy a 70"+ screen, even in a completely dark room it would be barely visible, to get a really good quality screen i would recommend at least 1000 lumen, mine is 4000

htfkid2000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@theignition21 Go To School! >_>

dantheman012008 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Only a couple of things to say and that is , " Do you really need all the lighting that is built into the projector , as a screen has a self luminating screen " and " Does the projector need to be switched on in the first place , mirrors and lenses are all you should need .( Helping you to scale down your design ) Could be a money maker if you panel off behind the projector from sunlight after scaling it down , or even maybe a case ,just a thought . . .Otherwise Brilliant Idea . . .

DrGoodwrench64 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

That was pretty cool. I can see a 14 inch LCD Monitor fitting nicely on the overhead projector and making the whole thing permanent.Nice work! Bravo!

DrGoodwrench64 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@theignition21Um, You put it in the DVD reader in the PC that LCD was connected to.The Big clue came when he was taking apart the LCD Monitor to get the LCD panel & controller out.... Duh. Did you not understand what he was doing when he was disassembling the LCD Monitor? If you didn't, maybe you shouldn't attempt this.

theignition21 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Um, how do you play the dvd?

wastedspace2169 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

oh yeah and the screen is 6ft by 5 ft. and the bulbs cost 5 bucks with an average of 75 hour lifetime. i do plan on building a regular box the goal of this projector was just to see what the cheapest it could be done for. i spent 110

wastedspace2169 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i did end up using an lcd tv the dissasembly was supprisingly easy plus it has vga connect hdmi. overhead projector i got is 4000 lumens which i got off of ebay ffor 60 bucks (free shipping) the tv was 50 bucks (ebay) i'd give the video quality threw the vga a 6.5 but when i hook up my xbox360 and switch it to 1080i i'd give it a 8.0 it does help to have a pure white screen the wall sucks. mostly just did the test run still have to mount everything. so far i am pretty happy with it.