Philips hue. How to Make a Gauntlet Armor Tutorial. Removable longboard motor. Homemade Monitor Stand. Custom Desk Project. Home Theater. My first arcade. Home Theater. Build Your Own Triple Monitor Wood Mount and Surround Yourself with Screens. Make Your Own Enormous Projector Screen Out of Wood and Spandex. No. Otherwise, the companies like Da-Lite and Draper would be using it in their screens, no? The fabric of projector screens are much thicker for one, and designed to reflect back a whole lot of light coming from the projector. Spandex I'd imagine, is good enough for home environment where the lights would be off to watch movies and what not. But with even any sort of added lights, the screen would look highly washed out, lacking contrast, etc. Besides, for $200, you could've gotten a manual ceiling/wall-mount 120" screen from Da-Lite/Draper and be done with it. cheaper for chinese brand or from Monoprice.
All in all, it's a meh DIY type of deal. And let's not forget what happens to spandex should it ever catch on fire... Let's be honest though, there's not $200 worth of materials in this build. Neither will a couple of buckets of Sherwin Williams Paint, some paint rollers, and a drop cloth: www.projectorcentral.com/paint_perfect_screen_$100.htm (Gawker's commenting eats up the URL. DIY Mini Photo Studio | Nick Drinks. Our household is spawning blogs like bunnies. Since I need all the help I could get, I thought it would be good to up my photo game. We’ve been using a bay window to take some of our pictures. So I started researching a mini photo studio solution. The goal was to combine a light tent and an infinity wall all in a desktop model. All the wood was cut at i3 Detroit, my local hackerspace and brought home for assembly.
The hardest part was figuring out the curve. A few coats of flat white paint and some lights from the hardware store and this is starting to look like a little studio. Cover the walls in ripstop nylon from the fabric store and you are all set. Check out some more pictures here as well as the sketch-up files (right click save as). Author Description Nick Nick is a cocktail enthusiast from Royal Oak, Michigan. How to convert Wireless Mouse to use Li-ion Battery.