Tiny slide-projector for your digital pics

"Projecteo" is Benjamin Redford's fully funded Kickstarter project to produce simple, tiny, hackable slide projectors for your digital photos. You pay to have slide-wheels with your digital photos on them produced, then show them in darkened rooms using this tiny, LED-powered projector. The gadget is pretty adorable. You can get them for $25, including a slide-wheel.

Projecteo has been designed so you can disassemble it. This will not only make them easier to recycle but it means you can pull it open and see what's going on inside. There, you will find a super bright LED, capacitors and resistors, a switch, a decade counter and three batteries. Feel free to hack away! We can't wait to see your creations.

Projecteo: The tiny Instagram projector.

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You pay to have slide-wheels with your digital photos on them produced

Hmmm… that cost will add up over time and you have to wait until your orders come in. I think I’ll stick with a usb projector instead that can plug into my laptop and/or have a jump drive plugged into it.
- vonbobo
  
  It’s designed for fun people to have fun with.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    What’s that? Who are they?
- http://profiles.google.com/steve.nordquist Steve Nordquist
  
  Kids dressed in 1890-1990s period costume, presenting to doll-size homemade saloons, catered hotel lobbies, drawing rooms and bank boards; they propose our hideous past, the dolls deprecate it, hilarity ensues. I am not clear how technical 300-slide presentations are compatible with this, but if saying no is halfway fun, then perhaps saying ‘not even on a fire-safe analogue’ will be all the way there. (You’re not supposed to rubberstamp everything here as cool after all; a little ‘Atari Spectrum culture ONLY’ might do.)
- http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns
  
  I’m sure this weighs less, takes less electricity, and is quicker to set up.
  
  -and less likely to get stolen-
http://twitter.com/gratefulvideo gratefulvideo

Why wouldn’t it just use standard memory cards?
- http://profiles.google.com/sean.rea Sean Rea
  
  You don’t understand how slides work, do you?
  - http://twitter.com/gratefulvideo gratefulvideo
    
    I do. I didn’t realize the wheels were actually tiny slides. There has to be a better way.
    - TooGoodToCheck
      
      Not at that price point
    - TheOven
      
      Define “better”.
Heartfruit

Maybe I don’t have the happy memories of slides that other do, but I fail to see the appeal
- vonbobo
  
  In my younger years, my family would drag out the old projector a couple of times a year. The experience was kind of cool: a two button wired remote, a dark room, the reliable mechanical noise of the projector changing slides- cajunk, cajunk, cajunk, and the family reciting “the tell” of fond memories to the newer generations.
http://www.facebook.com/mark.roberts.92 Mark Roberts

Wow! What a waste of…everything!
- http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns
  
  Well go contact you congressman to have it banned.
http://twitter.com/TheRedMonk01 Red Monk

It might be a cute Xmas ornament.
zantony

I want to see Tiny Don Draper’s pitch for this.
Henry Pootel

Needs a little keychain ring
http://shadowfirebird.tumblr.com shadowfirebird

“hackable” & “you pay to have…” are incompossible.
- Thomas Shaddack
  
  Not really. There’s nothing in the business model that would *prevent* you from making your own slide wheels. You can make your own (would printing on a highres inkjet work? or you can print the photos on paper, then photograph it with a film camera and go the old chemical diapositive way), or you can pay to offload the work to the third party.
  
  There’s a lot of space for these business models. Some people can’t even do as simple things as soldering.
  - http://shadowfirebird.tumblr.com shadowfirebird
    
    I guess the problem is “have to”, not “pay”.
http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

I had a spiderman toy like this. It had a projector in his chest with a button on the back, and came with little image wheels that showed him fighting with Mysterio. Weirdly I eventually lost the spiderman toy (or my mom went on one of her secret ‘de-junkings’…) but still had the wheels. I’m really curious if it was just an adapted comic or it was made new for that.

Oh Nostalgia.
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

I can just picture Lester Freeman hand crafting a tiny little projector screen and tiny little fold up chairs so that some rich doll lover can buy one of these and set up a family projector screening in the attic of their doll house.
- chaopoiesis
  
  … and a tiny printer to save the memories. You pay to buy tiny ink cartridges.
- Jonathan Roberts
  
  Depending on the cost, that would be an excellent addition to a scale model house or cinema for extra realism. $25 isn’t even all that much if you were that interested in modeling. Come to think of it, a lower tech version (placing an led behind a similarly printed single slide) would work fine too, even if you couldn’t see the projector itself.
http://mattdm.org/ Matthew Miller

For the record, I think it’s a neat little project. I’m going to get one for my kid, along with a reel or two of her favorite art.
ashypete

So slide film / E6 processing are hanging on (barely) and these guys want to make a slide machine for your crappy Instagram pictures that requires you to transfer the pictures ONTO to film (for a price)… Ok. I guess it looks cute but the idea behind it makes me scratch my head.