Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
CrapShack had a nifty little Mini-Projector on sale at half price, it was listed as a 640 x 480 unit, but that's the "default setting" I'm not sure if it actually does the 1280 x 1024 (?) resolution or down-converts it to 640 x 480. It doesn't matter though, I intend to run it at 640 x 480 off one of my TV Tuner Cards in either my 6360 or 6500/50 mobo with or without the Crescendo G-3/466.
This is what happens when inspiration strikes at about 3 AM on a work night!
It got a "tad" better on the second go-round, but I don't advise trying to rig up an optical table experiment when you're only half awake! [] ]'>
Here are a couple of shots of "Setup A"
Here's a shot of "Setup B" done the next morning, set up on a "Project Tray" so it can be moved to a surface that doesn't vibrate excessively whenever ANYTHING moves even just a little bit!
Here's a shot of the ceiling test.
The Projector will be mounted inside my Mac Classic testbed (for now), so that it will point up at a front surface mirror . . . < reminds self to snag that $24 overhead projector he's been eying > . . . passing through what's now a 3 Diopter Closeup Lens Attachment and, hopefully, an inexpensive WA lens attachment to shorten the projection distance and provide just the RIGHT amount of "Pincushion Distortion" to allow the projected image to perfectly fill the cut-off face of the 10" Color CRT that was going to be installed in this hollow shell. I'm not too worried about the optical end of things, the large expensive VidCam WA adapter does a great job of creating variable "pincushion distortion," depending upon its position, to create a rectangular image on a curved CRT faces's inner surface. There's a lot of variety in terms of closeup lenses available to get the proper focus at the perfect distance, if one or any combination of the three I already have won't work.
The cuts are already made in the back of the case to perfectly mount an inverted Q630/6360 metal backplane. But I'll be pairing the Classic with my first ever large capacity HDD's ZFP Case from APS. This will allow the use of a 6500 riser and two PCI cards, the bottom (top if you look at it the other way around!) one a USB card that'll nestle entirely within the ZFP HDD case while the slot closer to the MoBo will likely have a nice PCI Graphics Card in it for driving one of my big monitors or LCDs without the need for running the projector when I use the Hack as a PlotterServer.
Hopefully, the right optics will allow me to use a hole saw to make an opening in the "handle trough" for projecting onto the ceiling when the mirror/auxiliary lenses are flipped forward. the Projector itself, having been mounted with the bottom towards the back of the Classic shell, will be tipped forward/backward(?) so that it's facing rearward topside-up for projecting artwork onto a canvas to do a painting or to turn one of my many small sketches into a large Charcoal or Ink Drawing, which is the main reason I bought the projector.
The composite unit/hack, will sit on my Display/PlayStation and all I'll need to do to use it for art projection or movie projection will be to pull it off the shelf, configure it for whatever purpose on whatever surface at whatever height I want. The optical tomfoolery allows for braggin' rights on doing a MacintoshClassicIIIColorTVp™ Hack in a REAL Classic Case . . . or maybe my friend still has that old Mac Plus I used with the ZFP HDD back in the day . . .
This is what happens when inspiration strikes at about 3 AM on a work night!
It got a "tad" better on the second go-round, but I don't advise trying to rig up an optical table experiment when you're only half awake! [] ]'>
Here are a couple of shots of "Setup A"
Here's a shot of "Setup B" done the next morning, set up on a "Project Tray" so it can be moved to a surface that doesn't vibrate excessively whenever ANYTHING moves even just a little bit!
Here's a shot of the ceiling test.
The Projector will be mounted inside my Mac Classic testbed (for now), so that it will point up at a front surface mirror . . . < reminds self to snag that $24 overhead projector he's been eying > . . . passing through what's now a 3 Diopter Closeup Lens Attachment and, hopefully, an inexpensive WA lens attachment to shorten the projection distance and provide just the RIGHT amount of "Pincushion Distortion" to allow the projected image to perfectly fill the cut-off face of the 10" Color CRT that was going to be installed in this hollow shell. I'm not too worried about the optical end of things, the large expensive VidCam WA adapter does a great job of creating variable "pincushion distortion," depending upon its position, to create a rectangular image on a curved CRT faces's inner surface. There's a lot of variety in terms of closeup lenses available to get the proper focus at the perfect distance, if one or any combination of the three I already have won't work.
The cuts are already made in the back of the case to perfectly mount an inverted Q630/6360 metal backplane. But I'll be pairing the Classic with my first ever large capacity HDD's ZFP Case from APS. This will allow the use of a 6500 riser and two PCI cards, the bottom (top if you look at it the other way around!) one a USB card that'll nestle entirely within the ZFP HDD case while the slot closer to the MoBo will likely have a nice PCI Graphics Card in it for driving one of my big monitors or LCDs without the need for running the projector when I use the Hack as a PlotterServer.
Hopefully, the right optics will allow me to use a hole saw to make an opening in the "handle trough" for projecting onto the ceiling when the mirror/auxiliary lenses are flipped forward. the Projector itself, having been mounted with the bottom towards the back of the Classic shell, will be tipped forward/backward(?) so that it's facing rearward topside-up for projecting artwork onto a canvas to do a painting or to turn one of my many small sketches into a large Charcoal or Ink Drawing, which is the main reason I bought the projector.
The composite unit/hack, will sit on my Display/PlayStation and all I'll need to do to use it for art projection or movie projection will be to pull it off the shelf, configure it for whatever purpose on whatever surface at whatever height I want. The optical tomfoolery allows for braggin' rights on doing a MacintoshClassicIIIColorTVp™ Hack in a REAL Classic Case . . . or maybe my friend still has that old Mac Plus I used with the ZFP HDD back in the day . . .