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Home-made LCD Projector 8′ HD TV / Computer Monitor
July 7th, 2009 | 
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I never said this was a how-to video. It would be duplicated effort. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7lWqKHpGuc&NR=1 if you want to learn how to build one yourself. Their project looks to be very similar to what I did.
Cost: under $200. Make an 8 foot screen TV / computer monitor from old computer parts and an Overhead Projector. The projector is higher wattage (brighter) and the screen has more pixels (sharper) than a standard computer projector so overall I’m quite satisfied with the way this project turned out. The higher wattage bulb is bright enough for a clear daytime picture but it also raises your electric bill and puts out a lot of heat. I taped a quiet CPU fan on top to keep the screen cool. It just blows across the top surface of the screen, nothing fancy.
Operating system: Fedora Linux $Free
Computer: Junk AMD 1GHz O/C to 1.4 GHz (upgraded to 2200+) $40. (It came conveniently with a vintage ATI All-In-Wonder R200 TV/video card)
Monitor: Generic LCD (WXGA?) 14″ $20
Projector: Used OHP re-wired $50
Screen: Letter-size paper sheets and lots of scotch tape.
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LCD Overhead Projector Hack
How To Do
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/153950/home_cinema/
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/supersize-your-tv-for,review-342-11.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/12/01/build_your_own_xga_projector_ii/
http://mysite.verizon.net/yub_yump/
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High Quality viewing with a 70 inch horizontal screen Screen in video is 4 feet X 5 Feet(capable of 100 inch +, decent quality with dark room) DVDs/Video played from my laptop using kmplayer (video is rotated and shrunk using kmplayer settings. This is because the 17 ” screen is bigger than the overhead display area and is also rotated 90 degrees to lie/fit properly on the overhead. The overhead is connected via my laptops VGA and is displayed as my second monitor with XP extended onto it. I then used a black background wallpaper so the video blends nicely onto the screen. The clear box you see next to the overhead is the LCD power supply and video connections. I mounted it vertically (in the box) so the cable fits right next to the LCD. Check out the links for a more detailed how to.
Total Price:$120….hours spent ~ 24 hours construction time, and a somewhat adept computer skill level.
Winter Break 2007 Project finally completed 2-02-2008 By…. N8T3R
Thanks Cathi/Omer
Time to supersize my anime ^-^
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