P3D Re: RE: P3D Roll your own View-Master projector... ?

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:19 PM 2/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Xochi writes:
>
><<Would it be possible to make my own viewmaster projector
>out of two of the toy viewmaster projectors, duplicate reels,
>and some kind of filter to put over the lenses of the projectors?
>My guess is that the projected images wouldn't be sharp enough for
>this to work. Has anyone ever tried this?>>
>
>Sounds like an interesting project...I don't know how the lens optics fare
>for sharpness, or how to mount polarizers...then you'll have to get one
>projector set up to show the chip opposite the normal one...and buy two
>sets of reels or otherwise remount them...personally I'm holding out for
>one of those $11 deals ;^)

There's another problem ... I think all of the mono View-Master projectors
show only the right eye view from the reel.  It would take some significant
modification to make one show the left view.

-pd


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