Make an iPod Video Projector

Project video and pictures on a screen using your iPod!

Step 1: The setup

The idea is simple, Focus the light from your iPod onto a nearby screen by means of lenses and mirrors.

Comments

[ChaosMarine]

In theory, this would work for Android phones too, correct?

[crazy lazy man]

hi tanntraad can i just use magnifying glass instead of projector lenses

[Philisawesome]

Is it possible to do this w/out an old projector lens?

[darkcurtis]

that is awesome
pretty cool and simple

[Mermaids_R_Real]

Awesome!!! I'm getting an iTouch at the beginning of middle school, I'm making one of these!!!





:D

[Bajwa]

interesting... i'll try this for sure!

[Kryptonite]

In today's day and age, where abouts can one get a lens setup like that? If nothing else, how could one improvise?

[Harun Miya]

How many lences can be used there?

[sinrockets]

Maybe ill make one and add a bunch of like 5 or 6 leds and maybe get a better projection?

[im3733]

That would just wash out your image. because the color comes from the lcd, and adding leds outside the lcd would be no different than trying to watch it in a brightly lit room.

[beehard44]

he light source must come from the screen or else you'll just end up with a bad image. The light passes through the LCD to get filtered out to it's individual colors.

[sstivers-menz]

I so what to do this!!

To everyone asking about LEDs...I"m no tech wizard but I do know that no matter what style of projector you have, using a proper screen will always make it nicer.

[psycho_3852]

could this be used by another devise that is not a ipod, but another kind of screen that is still LCD?

[pyromonkey]

Very cool, you used the principal of a DSLR for a projector. Well done :)

[SirNoodlehe]

Amazing idea, well done!

[ixisuprflyixi]

That is pretty bad@ss. I don't own an ipod but I can see this being useful for other projects. 5 stars.

[vincent7520]

Love this QAD (quick and dirty) instructables !!!…
No fuss, no perfection … just an excellent idea put into use as soon as it comes with whatever is in the attic or at the rear of the garage …

Moreover it revives those old movies parties we had when I was a kid. All curtains had to be drawn and it felt like "cinema at home" … was much better than TV or so we thought for a brief moment of our childhood !…

Excellent !…

[tanntraad]

Thanks!
I agree on that "cinema at home" feeling. At only half your age, I still have some of my childhood on slides. No amount of mega pixels can beat that.

[thebeltshelf]

how big is the projection?

[vincent7520]

this you should ask the author : I only posted a comment on his / her project … 

[vincent7520]

How nice is your answer …
The only true life in this world in when we are kids !!!!…

Lately I found slides that my father took of my sister and I back in 1961 in Macedonia, Kosovo, and Montenegro with al those monuments intact (who could guess a war would rage 30 years later ?). These pics are the best memories in my life … although I did a lot of traveling, lived in the US, sailed on various part on the Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic …
Butt the "naive" touch is still remembered best.

generations after generations life / emotions are still the same…

[MCzone]

If I use my touch, will i get a bigger projection

[Mr. Pyro]

"If I use my touch, will I get a bigger projection?" the simple question sounds so suggestive... I am not however immature

GREAT PROJECTOR ALSO

[MCzone]

i wonder if the quality will be better

[dombeef]

I made one using my iPod touch, with retina display!

[matstermind]

how well does it work?

[dombeef]

Eh, The mirror and magnifiying glass are both scratched up, but It is useable, the quality is ok

[Paintballer98]

dude what is up with that picture for step 3

[junits15]

Its a hot girl with stickers on her body...why in the world are you questioning it?!

[Jimmy Proton]

I immediatly wet to step 3 when I saw that comment. lol

[Paintballer98]

because people tend to avoid this stuff

[mg0930mg]

Only 12 year olds.

[junits15]

that came out mean....it wasn't supposed to be :|

[junits15]

who...who avoids 1/2 naked girls?

[Jimmy Proton]

I DONT!!!!

[baileygrib]

can this be modded to project an ipads screen?? even though i know that the screen in big enoguh! haha

[crimson shadow]

how big is the projection?

[jrg3ni0us]

Is there anything else I can use besides an old slide projector lens?

[jaxxster1]

this is just what i needed! a cheap and easy to make ipod projector.

[jaxxster1]

also what type of lenses did you use?