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Projector "panel?" What the heck is this thing?

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A friend of mine has two of these, and he'd like to use them but can't really figure out how to use it, neither can I. Does anybody have a clue? There is a warning insert in there, saying not to use it on an IBM compatible or Mac that it will cause damage to it. I am guessing it's for a VCR or other video source, it has composite and s-video in.

Is it a projector, or a viewer? Very neat whatever it is, in a hard metal shell, and that's just nifty. Anybody have one of these things?

Nathan
 
So add a light source that is decent for it and I guess I have a projector of sorts. Neat! Well, he has two of them. Thanks for the info! It sure is neat tech, I wonder if he'll let me have one for the $5 he paid for it? Hmm.
 
NathanAllan said:
So add a light source that is decent for it and I guess I have a projector of sorts. Neat! Well, he has two of them. Thanks for the info! It sure is neat tech, I wonder if he'll let me have one for the $5 he paid for it? Hmm.
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I was thinking that putting something like a slide projector behind it would be the beginning of all kinds of light show effects.
 
Or get an old overhead projector, and you have an almost free low-end projector. An overhead magnifies the picture and projects in onto the wall. A slide projector would just shine light through it, and make a small colurful square (Unless you plan to mod it) The lens has to go on one side of the LCD; the light source on the other, like any other projector out there.
 
Before dedicated data projectors existed, we had these things. Many of them were black and white only, but some were color. As other have said, you just put it on a conventional overhead projector (remember those?) and it projects the image on the wall.

Many were designed to work with PC's or Macs, others only took composite video and were intended to be used with an Apple II or one of the various video terminals with composite outputs.

-Ian
 
There was even a similar device for the TI-83+. It connected to a special "instructor's version" of the calculator for group demonstrations.
 
The optical quality of the projected image on these things is typically terrible. Also note that because of the way LCDs work at least 50% of the light coming through it will be lost.

But it could be interesting to fool with, I guess.
 
RetroHacker_ said:
Many were designed to work with PC's or Macs, others only took composite video and were intended to be used with an Apple II or one of the various video terminals with composite outputs.
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We had them in elementary school... connected to an Apple IIe when we were learning LOGO programming (required teaching at the time).
 
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