NEWS:

-June 05- I tried out my projector inside my friends 80 inch tv. It was incredible! The rear projection screen made the picture so much brighter and sharper, I couldn't believe it. It was hard to work with mirrors to get the angles right, so it's still a work in progress. I hope to get a pictures section up soon so you can see it.

-June 03- Added tips section

-June 02- Worked on our BattleBot, Logan, and while at my teammate's house he showed me his old broken 80 inch tv. I am going to try to use my projector inside the tv and see if that works. It's the biggest TV ever made that's not a projection tv. It kind of is though, it has a projector inside facing upwards at a big mirror, the mirror turns it to the screen. It's all internal though. Hope it works.

 You can make a 100 inch tv very easily using simple materials. I built one and it works great. I use a white shower curtain for a screen. You need a tv, foamboard or cardboard, ductape, and a page size magnifying lens that you can get a Staples for $5.00.
To get the actual plans go to: Big Screen Tv Plans

I went out to walmart and bought a 13 inch tv, foamboard, and black ducttape. I used the foam board and ductape to make the box, and then just taped it onto the tv and it looks good.

Tips:

1.Make sure your lens's SMOOTH side is facing towards the SCREEN, the BUMPY side should be facing the TV!

2.If the edges or whole picture looks a little soft, and you are using the fresnel lens, you can fix this fairly easily. Put a piece of paper on top of your fesnel lens (on the bumpy side) and trace the biggest whole circle. Once you have done that cut out the circle so you should have a peice of paper with a big hole in the middle. Now trace that onto a black peice of cardboard the same size as your fresnel lens and cut out the circle on that. Now just line up the hole in cardboard with the biggest circle on the fresnel lens, and tape it on. Put it back into your projector and try it out. This will darken the picture a little bit but make it a lot sharper. This works because the $5 staples fresnel lenses are imperfect, so the outside edges of the lens kind of throw the light in weird places defracting the picture. So by utting out the stray light it will sharpen it. I read on another site after i did this, to make a square hole and to experiment with different sizes. I haven't tried it yet, but i'll post here how it works.

If you have any questions, comments, tips please email me at illfuseill2@hotmail.com. Please e-mail me stuff so I can post it. It's the only way I can keep building the website. Thanks a lot! -IllFuSeIll