Id’ like to show you my personal 3D printing project called @GuerillaBeam .
It’s a 3D printable projector, that can use arbitrary camera manual focus lenses and LED lights. It’s solid state and portable and yet superior to classic slide- and gobo projectors.
It includes more than 700 hours of work (not counting the printing), much love to detail, and has a whole system of many adapters and tripod + accessory mounts for attaching anything you’d like (cameras for instance).
I plan on manufacturing them, and also to make them available for downloading for a small fee (CC licensed). Please let me know if you are interested or have any ideas and questions about it! Thanks
Pretty cool, I would be interested in supporting this project if it were properly Open Source, you’ll end up making far more money and friends Plan on selling online with good SEO and let everyone else help out on upgrading and improving your products… Word of mouth travels far! But you’ve probably already carefully thought this through?? Awesome idea regardless!! I imagine this would work great with a good laser pointer too, you may only need one lens too…
@Tim_Jacobsen I want to make it Open Source, thats how I planned it. However, full disclosure is much work, and i can only do it step by step. So please stay tuned.
@kus11 Minimum working distance is basically the same as one of the lens used. However you can switch lens and light on the GuerillaBeam. This puts the lens 12mm more away from the slide, giving you macro extension and siginficantly lower mimimum projecting distance (like 0.3m instead of 1m). In addition you could insert additional extension rings for as little minimum distance you want.
@Ethan_Hall Suitable flashlights cost from 40$. A really good old SLR lens would cost about the same, but you can get nice 50mm lenses for $10 or less.
Plan on selling online with good SEO and let everyone else help out on upgrading and improving your products… Word of mouth travels far! But you’ve probably already carefully thought this through?? Awesome idea regardless!! I imagine this would work great with a good laser pointer too, you may only need one lens too…