"It's alive!" ( Peppy Projector Prototype Progress for Pendery and Planning Purposes)

Sam just sent in two charming videos of the moving-telephoto-projector insert thing:

We’ve swapped out the lens in the projector for a longer lens; Sam made a beautiful mount for the new lens so it fits right in:

New lens, left, old lens, right.

We may have some issues with focus in this set-up, and the lens isn’t quite as long as we want.

I ordered a bunch of optics from SurplusShed, one piece of which seemed to work very well. This documentation is lacking, but here I am holding a piece of achromatic glass several inches in front of a lens-less projector:

…and here, miraculously, is Sam holding a focused & crisp image several feet down the room:

We ordered some parts to turn the Surplus Shed glass into an enclosed lens; I will head into Oakland to work with Sam on that tomorrow, and then hopefully we will bring the prototype to CDG on Friday.

-RMO

Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 16:55:20 -0700
From:	Robert M Ochshorn
Subject:	"It's alive!" ( Peppy Projector Prototype Progress for Pendery and Planning Purposes)