Not so much amazing,
but I found some pictures of this pea:

I'm a cheapskate; I have no problem admitting it. I use servers and computer stuff salvaged from skips. That also makes me a bin raider and hoarder. I can't walk past a skip without delving in and sometimes I'll hawk my finds online and sometimes I’ll manufacture and bodge something. This is a tale of one such time.

I had a laptop that was a complete write off. I'd inherited it from someone else. The motherboard had a crack down the middle and there was no screen, having been torn clean off. The first stage was to get this working. Using my autism to great effect and invoking my rain man style soldering skills, the machine was soon working having been screwed to a piece of plastic and the keyboard DUCT-taped to the thing. As it came with a Vista OEM licence (befitting the time) that was transferred to another machine and the hard drive went with it. Enter fellow b3tan epicsnail and his knowledge of Linux distro's and in a flash, the thing was running from a memory stick, with an external monitor. The LCD monitor I had was itself another bodged contraption, and we wondered if this was stripped down and placed onto an old style overhead projector, would it project the image. Within minutes, I was on the phone to the primary schools in my area. I figured that with the advent of interactive white boards, at least one would have one going spare. Turns out the second school I rang were only too willing to help. That afternoon, the projector, and trolley were in my dining room and the LCD was placed over the top having been ripped away from the casing and back-screen. The contraption booted up and projected perfectly. It took a few minor alterations what with being backwards, out of focus and upside down, but we got there in the end. We strung up a bed sheet in my living room and experimented watching films, streaming videos from the server and joining in with pron films!

The project got a little out of hand after that I’ll confess. Custom boot screens, decals and permanent marker designs. We even went for an Apple style proprietary power supply design that involved a power cable made of a three pin plug at each end, requiring a "socket at each end" lead available seperately.
Not wanting to be accused of failing to keeping up with the latest technology, the next stage is the development of 3D. The broad plan is to build another one, find a source video with that has the left eye on the left and the right on the right. Then, using some sort of extended desktop arrangement, display the two images simultaneously and project through some sort of polarising filter and wearing glasses.


some more:
www.b3tards.com/u/eea283f4ce96a8593536/sh100506.jpg
Note the insulating kitchen roll.
This one NSFW:
www.b3tards.com/u/eea283f4ce96a8593536/sh100516.jpg
and the finale:
www.b3tards.com/u/eea283f4ce96a8593536/sh100519.jpg
(sunray18, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 1:20, 10 replies)

I'll admit, that is very impressive.
Particularly the detail in the last link.
But next time you're skip-diving, why not see if there's any post-war home furnishings available?
( 4Q just lurking, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 2:04, closed)

I was going to call you an uber-geek
but you had to get a linux geek in to help you. That just relegates you to the n00ber-geek pile.
Standards are slipping I tells ya!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 22 Nov 2011, 7:37, closed)

Did you find
those curtains in a skip?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 16:56, closed)

The decor was not mine
the house was rented and it came like that! Honestly, every guest I had got a standard apology from the wife. In my autistic head, I didn't even notice tbh!
(sunray18, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 16:59, closed)

That's really rather splendid,
but does the LCD really give off enough light? Given that OHPs are normally backed by massive bulbs, I'm surprised this has enough luminescent oomph to have anything to bounce of the mirror.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 20:14, closed)

I'm guessing it uses the bulbs in the OHP,
if you take the backlight off the screen you could replace it with anything, I've myself wondered about the possibility of putting one in the window with a thin sheet of white perspex behind it and having a solar backlight.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 21:48, closed)

yeah it does, the LCD sans backlight and white screen are literally a regular ohp, with a cap to maintain airflow.
(sunray18, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 23:21, closed)

Cool.
I've learnt something new.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 23 Nov 2011, 7:59, closed)

Aaaaaaah you fucker
Got me.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Tue 22 Nov 2011, 21:29, closed)

Ho Ho Ho!

(sunray18, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 23:19, closed)