Hey has anyone ever found some sort of mirror which you can shine light through. For example, instead of disassembling the lcd monitor, get it to reflect onto a mirror or something, then shine the light through that. It would be very easy to construct, much easier than shining the light directly thorugh the lcd.
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When an object is reflected off a mirror surface, you would see a virtual image of that object. For DIY LCD, we want to creat a bright "real" image. After that, we can bound it to anywhere.
Wow! That brings back memories of back in the day... Yup! People came up with that idea. IMHO, it will not work... but i cannot really back up my claim... just tell you what i have read from many others.
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are you thinking of this thread "Reflective type DIY projector (easy) "?. I have read through the forums and there is nothing on that idea. Mayb it has been deleted. The main reason i want to take this approach is because i dont wanna pull apart my lcd screen as it would be a bit hard to mount.
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are you thinking of this thread "Reflective type DIY projector (easy) "?. I have read through the forums and there is nothing on that idea. Mayb it has been deleted. The main reason i want to take this approach is because i dont wanna pull apart my lcd screen as it would be a bit hard to mount.
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Jake I say go for it. The worst that can happen is that it doesn't work and you can just scrap the parts that you used to build a different design. A lot of people on this forum say things don't work or will not work and some are even proven wrong, so I say follow your ideas if they make sense to you! 🙂
yeh i want to start with this idea. i have done some research and it proves that this idea should work, the only problem is that i can not find anything that is like a mirror (reflects things) and can also have light passed through it. mayb that stuff that they use in some offices, the tint they put on the windows so on one side you can see through, and on the other it is just a mirror.
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just guessing here but wouldnt a beamsplitter do what your trying to acomplish "just try to find a large enough one"
jake said:
a beam splitter is a simple device that will either split 1 beam into 2 or combine 2 beams into 1 you can find many www sites if you just google it
hey i thought that i could just use a piece of glass. it reflects. will it not reflect enough?
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Hey 🙂
I'm gonna make this a sticky as requested. If I see anything off topic though, I shall remove it so that this can remain on topic 🙂
Enjoy 😀
I'm gonna make this a sticky as requested. If I see anything off topic though, I shall remove it so that this can remain on topic 🙂
Enjoy 😀
thanks frank,
hey 1st i would like to ask a question, if any1 goes off topic, like in antoher 1 of my forums, it was about car stereos and they started talking about garden lighting, can we just tell them to get back on topic 1st?
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hey 1st i would like to ask a question, if any1 goes off topic, like in antoher 1 of my forums, it was about car stereos and they started talking about garden lighting, can we just tell them to get back on topic 1st?
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jake said:
Sure no problemo 🙂
If you see it's going OT enough that you want me to remove posts or help out then let me know 🙂 It's your tread so you know how much OT you want in here 😀
hey jake heres a www site that tells you exactly what a beamsplitter is
http://www.pancro.com/beamsplit.htm
http://www.pancro.com/beamsplit.htm
hey guys
4 the momnent im just gonna use a piee of glass, tried it on my lcd computer monitor and it refelcted really well so im gonna reflect the screen onto that and shine the light though the glass.
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4 the momnent im just gonna use a piee of glass, tried it on my lcd computer monitor and it refelcted really well so im gonna reflect the screen onto that and shine the light though the glass.
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Frosted Glass
This maybe way out there, but in the spirit of this thread (experimental) I submit it.
I think I read once about some projection tv's using etched or sandblasted glass for the projection screen. (If I am out to lunch on this, be nice)
Maybe this would work for your project, if you frosted the glass it might give the light something to "stick to". It's worth a shot, of course maybe plain glass will work fine, but if not you should be able to find the chemicals for glass etching or frosting, in a craft store. It is a fairly common craft thing.
Hope this helps
This maybe way out there, but in the spirit of this thread (experimental) I submit it.
I think I read once about some projection tv's using etched or sandblasted glass for the projection screen. (If I am out to lunch on this, be nice)
Maybe this would work for your project, if you frosted the glass it might give the light something to "stick to". It's worth a shot, of course maybe plain glass will work fine, but if not you should be able to find the chemicals for glass etching or frosting, in a craft store. It is a fairly common craft thing.
Hope this helps
I read some posts of this thread and I want to say that this project is a joke.....you can't enance the reflected light by using a second light that shine through the mirror!!! It will simply lighten the entire image. To project an image you have to pass the light through the lcd because the elements of the lcd change their color and opacity so the light that pass through them will change is color and intensity. I don't know if the problem is clear, also my english is not wery well but trust me....you can't project an image in this way.
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