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Sharp Pencil Quality TV

Sharp Pencil Quality TV
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The Future of TV is here folks! Sharp Pencil Quality TV!

Here's my papercraft TV set with a film strip of selected frames from a movie. The strip is wrapped arround two pencils. As you turn the pencils film scrolls over the screen. You need to download DIY kit I made from my web site link. They are actualy just PDF files containing the box fold out and a film strip. All you need is to print it, cut it and assemble it. You'll need two pencils (chopsticks might do also) and some glue.

I have done versions for three movies so far. Kill Bill vol. 1, Dirty Harry and Dr. Strangelove.

Sharp Pencil Quality TV

 
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Step 1Download and print

Go here and get the PDFs I have made for you or download a template and customize it your self.

Print it. Use thicker glossy paper for the first page (TV set box) and thiner normal paper for the film strip.
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Jan 4, 2012. 9:24 PMPinksalamander says:
Can you please do more versions? And can you make more child appropriate versions, like Phineas and Ferb or something?
Jan 4, 2012. 9:25 PMPinksalamander says:
This is a wonderful instructable by the way. And how about a Jackie Chan or Chuck Norris movie version? That would be awesome!
Sep 28, 2011. 10:55 PMmaker777 says:
Thank you! My brother is all about it. Also if you have some tips about decorating it, or putting touches on it, please post it. I want to decorate it when my brother is finished. Also any tips for my brother will be welcomed my brother and I share an account.
Jul 25, 2011. 5:46 AMelcivmn says:
This is such a cool idea!! Do you know if there's a place to find any other movies to put on it? Yes, I'm lazy....
Jun 23, 2011. 12:09 PMshadow123456 says:
i have one
Dec 30, 2010. 9:06 PMvideo500 says:
Hey! I made one like this when i was in school. but was not a TV, but a game.
The differences are, that the strip was a continuous drawn river with obstacles, and in one side it includes a steer wheel that moves a little boat in the screen.
Of course, my version has pencils on sides, so the river moves vertically.
Nice remember...
Jul 11, 2010. 9:32 AMDrakerDG says:
I like this :)
Sep 16, 2008. 8:30 PMturner22 says:
StaneStane- the film just seems to be individual pics instead of slight variations of a photo like real film. does it actually look like TV? post a vid!
Dec 2, 2009. 4:27 PMDuct Tape Dude says:
Srry for a late reply but your avatar picture is.....sweeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!
Jul 4, 2009. 1:30 PMRadioactive_Legos says:
cool idea! The pic in step 2 totally looks like Domo!
Jul 4, 2009. 1:16 PMknexsuperbuilderfreak says:
im gonna start makeing
Apr 9, 2009. 5:08 AMstib says:
My dad made us something like this when we were kids, except it was bigger and had an electric light inside, and a magnifying glass on a cardboard tube out the front, so that it worked as a projector (I guess it was the home theatre version). Instead of frames from movies we got strips of tracing paper and drew our own film strips. That was ace fun. And then my parents wondered why I quit medicine to go to film school..
Jan 5, 2008. 12:53 AMcallmeshane says:
What a great way to pirate movies..... Shhhhhhh don't tell no one...
Nov 11, 2008. 4:55 PMcasey321b says:
not really cuz liek its not very good and theres no sound...
May 25, 2007. 10:28 PMstudmuffin3dawg2 says:
isnt it hard and tiring to keep spinning the pencils? oh, well neat idea! somebody make a video of what they make and post it on here so we all can see what it looks like.
Jul 30, 2007. 10:50 PMgirrrrrrr2 says:
ok if it is hard to make the pencils spin than mount a motor on it...
Apr 3, 2008. 10:01 PMshooby says:
Maybe it's called sharp pencil TV for a reason- you are supposed to use a hacked electric pencil sharpener to spin the pencils :)
Oct 9, 2008. 7:46 PMgirrrrrrr2 says:
yeah, just use the motor out of it...
Aug 19, 2007. 6:03 PMeragonsdragon101 says:
hey!!! i was going to say that!!
Aug 29, 2007. 4:03 PMgirrrrrrr2 says:
lol...sweet...
Aug 29, 2007. 6:27 PMeragonsdragon101 says:
are you saying swee... whatever on purpose??? dont say sweet. its a crapy and stupid word.
May 9, 2008. 8:53 PMthermoelectric says:
sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet
Jun 29, 2008. 2:47 PMtoogers says:
ssssccchhhwwwwweeeeeeeettttttttt lolz roflcoper wooooooooooooooooo
Oct 22, 2008. 9:29 PMNinjaSloth says:
sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet omgroflmao roflcoper lolololololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oct 22, 2008. 10:23 PMthermoelectric says:
Soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi.....
Nov 5, 2008. 9:47 AMDerin says:
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Nov 5, 2008. 12:53 PMthermoelectric says:
Okay............
Nov 16, 2008. 6:51 PMbigskinsfanj says:
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Nov 16, 2008. 9:10 PMthermoelectric says:
Lol.
Nov 25, 2008. 6:07 PMtemp says:
why is the word sweet equivelant to crap? If you ask me cap most likely isn't "sweet".
Nov 26, 2008. 1:02 PMthermoelectric says:
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Jan 4, 2009. 6:35 PMbad ass pope says:
I like how eragonsdragon101's voiced disapproval of the word sweet provoked this hailstorm of replies that serve the sole purpose of pissing him off. I suppose this suggests that people really like the word sweet, or people really DON'T like eragonsdragon101.
Jan 4, 2009. 7:00 PMthermoelectric says:
Yeha.
Apr 14, 2009. 9:35 AMDerin says:
(removed by a hobo)
Apr 14, 2009. 4:02 PMthermoelectric says:
:-)
Jun 16, 2007. 12:28 PMandrew101 says:
yeah
Jul 14, 2008. 7:08 AMthegamer2000 says:
I'm guessing it doesn't have a pencil sharpener...But I'm putting on channel 1000:Pencil TV.
Feb 17, 2007. 7:48 PMmrgibby says:
great gadget, you get an extra star for using the sweetest pencil's ever. HB even, woohoo.
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