Please help with my problems in Homemade projector

23 Feb 2007 6:19 AM

Saurabh

Hello All,

I made a home made projector and below is my approch:

I bought a
90mm magnifying glass which costs 1USD in India,
Cardboard box
and a Laptop 699USD

Now what I did is I fixed Magnifying glass in Cardboard Box and placed
my laptop inside the box.

Thats it!!!

Now the problems I faced and solutions i made:
1. PROB:The projection was inverted
SOL: I downloaded a media player named vidmx which can play movie
inverted so that I can get correct projection

Now the problems I faced and DONT have solution:
1. The projected movie is blur from left and right side/edge.
PLEASE help me how can i correct this.

Looking forward to get a solution soon because I cant live without
watching movie on this projector and want to rectify this as soon as
possible.

Please HELP

Thanks in advance

Regards
Saurabh Periwal

23 Feb 2007 11:25 PM

Gene E. Bloch

On 2/22/2007, Saurabh posted this:
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> Hello All,
>
> I made a home made projector and below is my approch:
>
> I bought a
> 90mm magnifying glass which costs 1USD in India,
> Cardboard box
> and a Laptop 699USD
>
> Now what I did is I fixed Magnifying glass in Cardboard Box and placed
> my laptop inside the box.
>
> Thats it!!!
>
> Now the problems I faced and solutions i made:
> 1. PROB:The projection was inverted
> SOL: I downloaded a media player named vidmx which can play movie
> inverted so that I can get correct projection
>
> Now the problems I faced and DONT have solution:
> 1. The projected movie is blur from left and right side/edge.
> PLEASE help me how can i correct this.
>
> Looking forward to get a solution soon because I cant live without
> watching movie on this projector and want to rectify this as soon as
> possible.
>
> Please HELP
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
> Saurabh Periwal

You need to spend real money on a real projector.

A magnifying lens lacks the optical quality to do this job, and a
laptop lacks the brightness to create a reasonably-sized projection
image.

You did do creative work, though.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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24 Feb 2007 6:43 AM

Saurabh

Hi,

Yes I know "Buying a projector" is obvious thing that every other rich
human will do, im diffrent and I like to make things and use :) though
Im a Software Guy.

Thanks for your appreciation, but I will look forward to build a
reasonably good and cheep projector.

Be in touch and please post if you find some thing intresting for
me :)

Regards
Saurabh Periwal

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
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> On 2/22/2007, Saurabh posted this:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I made a home made projector and below is my approch:
> >
> > I bought a
> > 90mm magnifying glass which costs 1USD in India,
> > Cardboard box
> > and a Laptop 699USD
> >
> > Now what I did is I fixed Magnifying glass in Cardboard Box and placed
> > my laptop inside the box.
> >
> > Thats it!!!
> >
> > Now the problems I faced and solutions i made:
> > 1. PROB:The projection was inverted
> > SOL: I downloaded a media player named vidmx which can play movie
> > inverted so that I can get correct projection
> >
> > Now the problems I faced and DONT have solution:
> > 1. The projected movie is blur from left and right side/edge.
> > PLEASE help me how can i correct this.
> >
> > Looking forward to get a solution soon because I cant live without
> > watching movie on this projector and want to rectify this as soon as
> > possible.
> >
> > Please HELP
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Regards
> > Saurabh Periwal
>
> You need to spend real money on a real projector.
>
> A magnifying lens lacks the optical quality to do this job, and a
> laptop lacks the brightness to create a reasonably-sized projection
> image.
>
> You did do creative work, though.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
> letters617blochg3251
> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")