[sdiy] Photo PCB with projector? ( was : For breadboard lovers... )

[Tom Arnold]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:35:46AM +0100, Jason Tribbeck wrote:
> The initial problems you'd need to overcome are:
> 
> 1) Make sure it's the right scale
> 2) Make sure it's square on
> 3) Make sure the linearity is good
> 
> Once you've done that, then at 300dpi, it would depend on the resolution
> of the projector.
> 
> 1024x768 would give a 3.4"x2.56" image size - and I'm not sure if the
> optics in the projector would be suitable for sharp focus at that size
> (how many people run their projectors down to that size?)
> 
> But on the whole, it would be nice not to have lots of used film kicking
> around :)

I think its all doable.  I'm worried about black level.  However I think I
can print a lot of laser transparencies in the time it'd take to set this
up... but maybe I'll play with the DLP projector I acquired last night.

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