Build your own LCD Video Projector: “A while back I got frustrated with the fact the LCD Projectors cost so much money to buy, and figured that it couldn‘t be so hard to build my own. So I took a 2 inch JVC active matrix LCD (no longer on the market, but the LCD’s on the right work pretty well) which was the exact size of a slide, took it apart, and mounted it inside my slide projector. This sort of worked. The downside was that the heat from the bulb was too much for the LCD, and the image degraded into swirls of colour after 15 seconds or so. Later on I worked out a beam splitter-type arrangement, where the light from the slide projector was reflected at a right angle to the LCD, and a huge blower fan was cooling the works, and it turned out pretty well. The picture was kinda pixilated, but I didn‘t have all the perfect lenses. But not bad considering I only invested $150 USD in the whole project. I don’t have pictures from those experiments, but I‘ve gathered together a lot of different related resources, and made up this page, in hopes that you’ll get some ideas and figure something out on your own. ( I'm going to put together another projector with the LCD on the right and take pictures of the whole process, and post the new article in the near future…)”