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Make an iPod Video Projector

Step 1The setup

The setup

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

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11 comments

Jan 10, 2012. 3:50 PMHarun Miya says:

How many lences can be used there?

Feb 18, 2010. 11:12 PMHAZMAT2364 says:

Would it work having two magnify glasses and adjusting them to focus, intead of lenses?

Jul 28, 2010. 6:59 PMzack247 says:

it might work, i dont know. im gonna try it that way since projector lenses are way too expensive

Jun 9, 2010. 3:12 AMnanoz300 says:

How do i make projected image brighter?

Apr 1, 2010. 1:52 AMwoutwoot says:

I have a problem: when i made it, good lens en stuff i can only get a very small screen that is clear, smaller than my ipod's screen anybody, help ?

Jan 25, 2010. 9:53 AMPandaMindset says:

I tried to use a lens from a magnifying glass. It went blurry. Tried to fix it by putting the ipod screen and lenses in different angles but it kept getting blurry.

Magnifyers does not work very well.

Jul 26, 2009. 2:07 AMAbhiest says:

hey can i use it to project images from my mobile phone...?

Dec 25, 2009. 9:32 AMwillrandship says:

Same idea.

Jul 30, 2009. 3:50 AMdaleg3 says:

great idea few i need one of these!

Jun 11, 2009. 6:07 PMNYPA says:

how does it go? i think it is mirror, concave, convex. Right?

Jan 11, 2009. 1:12 PMCallieBaby says:

can i use a magnifying glass?

Dec 27, 2008. 10:11 AMfatboy106 says:

what else can the lens tube be made of?

Dec 30, 2008. 7:14 AM

tanntraad (author) says:

Tiger skin. Or cardboard

Jan 3, 2009. 7:40 AMfatboy106 says:

i mean the lenses themselves

Jan 3, 2009. 9:42 AM

tanntraad (author) says:

Use glass lenses. Plastic ones can work also..

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