DIY High-Quality XGA Projector for ~$300 172
ranrub writes "Tom's Hardware Guide posted a guide to building your own XGA LCD projector from parts costing under $300. Major components are an overhead projector and a used 15" LCD screen. They even have a movie of the whole project on site! It's quite bigger and noisier than a standard projector, but most of our living rooms look like electronic junkyards anyway, don't they?"
3500 lumens? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's been done (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a reason why projector lamps are expensive (and bright!)
Re:TCO (Score:5, Insightful)
It would be fun to do that with digital photographs or movies.
1750 lumens (Score:3, Insightful)
this thing is about as rough as it gets (Score:4, Insightful)
Do It Themselves (Score:3, Insightful)