Skimo
Newly Enlightened
I was looking for and found a rear projection TV on the roadside, my daughters need a 53" magnifying lens mounted in a frame to bring ruin to leaves, pennies and any small insects that are foolish enough to get too close to a miniature death ray. I had never looked in this style of TV before and noticed they have manually adjustable lenses. An idea was born, I'm not sure that I'm the first to come up with this idea, but I came up with it on my own and I'm pretty happy with myself for thinking of it. I shined my flashlight through one of the 3 lenses and noticed that I could take a completely floody light and cast the image of the die. Sadly this only works with a single point light source. I quickly cobbled together a working prototype. It's not pretty and I scavenged the materials from the TV. I may work on a wooden body at some point, but I am pretty happy with the novelty so far. I'm going to take some pictures this afternoon. The lux within a few feet for this 650 lumen light is pretty close to daylight and the die is about 20' square at 100 yards.