I’ve been meaning to make this thread for a while. I find an lcd display that is meant to be used with the old style of overhead projector. The 80 year old guy I bought it from didn’t know what it was. It turns out it requires a TI92 to function. It didn’t come with one and a working one would be 40 bucks. It made me want to find a color lcd one though.
I sold a bunch of stuff so I’m feeling high on the hog joy and bought a view frame spectra. A transparent lcd panel used for educators on overhead projectors before digital projectors became practically free. I love interim solutions before the market adapts and makes a reasonable solution. Those solutions are often janky and don’t make sense to anybody who didn’t live through that short period of time and were in the particular space where they made sense.
On top of it I put an open call for an old overhead projector and somebody gave me theirs that had been sitting in their garage. I hope the smooth lens kind and not fresnel lens kinds. I prefer the smooth lens refraction index of glass with its fringing and its chromatic aberration. it’s familiar and soothing to me. I’ll know when I pick it up.
This was in the bag with the other lcd thing. It’sa serial port to trs micro headphone jack? The serial port can be swapped out for ps/2 but still terminates with the headphones jack. This is really weird. There’s no port on the lcd thing. It must interface with the ti92 and PC but what a weird one.
New handlheld just dropped. The view frame spectra c . No backlight. It can only be viewed through transillumination like this or an overhead projector. Now I have to play dark souls at an Arby’s this way too. I now have the fantasy to layer two of these screens and have a game on one and some crazy fractal video on the other to see what happens
I’ve been eyeing this 16 shade of gray scale projection panel. I’m thinking it would be great for projection gameboy use. Just find the right color green transparency and and emulation shader and it might look close to the real thing. I’ve been experimenting with colored gels using this thing. I’ll post some videos once I have something actually interesting to show. I have a lot of work to do for a show but I’ll get around to it before summer definitely but probably early spring. The thing these panels can do that insists compared to traditional displays or even dlp projectors is how much you can distort the image. What would happen if I put the 60s trippy liquid special effect behind it? What would happen if I put a colored lightbulb in the projector? All question I want to answer.
Here’s a better video. What I mean is using the practical effect and not a video of the effect
Ok guys great me out. What if I got a free 50inch 720p plasma screen too? I’m kind of excited about it. It’ll probably be better for the project. I’ve committed to something so now I have the morbs about it. My reaction is to drag this into my house by myself.
I need the chunkiest rbg pixels I can reasonably find and free was the right price. Good thing I also got a 36 inch Sony crt too. Can’t have too much absolute garbage. It’s just a bonus if it’s heavy and cumbersome.
The slot wheels are projected onto a fogged glass screen. Whatever is happening is happening in these black boxes. They’re numbered one two and three same with the ATA cables so presumably they are controlled by those.
These lemon windows are crazy. There are 9 prisms/lenses that each have a bulb pressed up right next to them. Each one illuminates one of 9 fruit. There are no moving parts just 12 lightbulbs. I would have never imagined. The video is of me shining my flashlight through it. I can’t get it close enough to project right but I’m going to get a snake flashlight to see if I can Jerry rig something. The devices are labeled one-plane readout.
Edit, oh I’m starting to get it. Three of the lights must tint the fruit either red blue or green depending on if it’s a winning spin.
Our daily driver tv is a Samsung plasma. It is mounted on the wall, came with the house and was made in 2005. Still going good. The only issue is it has no HDMI so we need to use a convertor for anything remotely modern.
