XBox and Projector Unit - Any Ideas? (PS. Thanks lads!!)

[The_Stig]

I need some idea's. I've got a projector and I've got an XBox 360 thingy and I'm looking to make some kind of swanky unit to put them both in but I'm fresh out of ideas and not fancy making just a simple unit with a top and bottom shelf.

 

[9fingers]

I think it is a generation thing Stig!
We possibly can't visualise the objects, issues and what you want to do- hence the lack of replies.

Bob

 

[The_Stig]

You say that, I was at my uncles yesterday and he had got all that he wanted for Christmas (a garden vac and a pressure washer), then he got an XBox and he cried, lol.

 

[9fingers]

Ah well that just goes to reinforce my impression that I'm not typical of the genre.

I've never seen the point of computer games. I use a computer for several hours a day but never to play games.

I have been involved in electronic high technology all my working life and only use very little of it as most of it goes to protect our armed forces.

In 1986 I spent a brief interlude away from the Defence world working on a new telephone standard that became called GSM. We did weeks of trials of different systems in London working with BT to define how some new fangled mobile telephones would work best. It does seem to have taken off! We included an ability to use a bit of spare capacity for sending engineering messages between handsets. I came for free so it got left in. I think one or two text messages have been sent since then and made far more money for the telephone companies than they ever though possible.
I have a mobile phone because my employer gives me one but I virtually never switch it on!

Bob

 

[The_Stig]

I help run the IT at Whitmore's but its pretty basic compared to the stuff you do

I always said that I'd never get an XBox but since the misses left me last Sunday I needed to keep the brain busy since its Christmas week.

 

[9fingers]

Sorry to hear you are on your own mate.

I think I must of confused your ID with another one of one of our younger (teenage) members hence my earlier 'generation' comment.

Doh! onset of senility on my part.

Bob

 

[wizer]

Well I know exactly what your talking about, but have no idea how you'd do it. I think that's mainly because I can't stand projectors. I want a proper telly to look at. Mounting a projector somewhere in the room and then a screen somewhere else never, to me, seems like a tidy way to do things. Plus you have to then sit in complete darkness otherwise the daylight fades the picture. The output never impresses me. I install these huge projector systems as part of my job. I was never much into going to the cinema either.

 

[wizer]

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I have a mobile phone because my employer gives me one but I virtually never switch it on!

Bob

Well I'm probably of the same generation as The Stig but I agree with you there. I have had my company mobile cut off 5 times in 10yrs because they thought it was lost through non-use

 

[The_Stig]

I use mine quite a lot now that I've got a good deal, but before it used to only be on in the evenings.

Obviously now I need it so that I can keep in touch with the women, lol.

 

[John. B]

Isn't it interesting, when a group of people like us who have a common interest. ie. woodwork,
talk about their other talents, their expertise in different fields. I would bet a random pick of a dozen of our forums lists would come up with
a Doctor, maybe a nurse, an IT expert, a train driver, an airline pilot, a medical researcher, a University lecturer, a gardener, policeman, fireman, paramedic, and probably even a Doctor of philosophy.
It is amazing the amount of latent, sometimes not so latent talent there is out there.......

John. B

 

[The_Stig]

I have hold a private pilots licence if that counts?

 

[John. B]

Of course!
in my time I have held a PPL, an HGV1, a PSV now called a PCV. a Train drivers licence, now I've retired I just retain my M/c and car licence.
Don't need anything else now.

John. B

 

[The_Stig]

Thats cool, I wouldn't mind getting a H licence

 

[John. B]

Stig, as you get older, the the fun starts to go pulling a big rig around.
I did enjoy driving a coach though, but much of that was around France.
Best of all, many years ago I had access to a friends Tiger Moth which I really did enjoy.

John. B

 

[The_Stig]

My grandad learnt to fly in one and he said that there brilliant.

 

[John. B]

I'm probably the same age as your grandad anyway, but yes they were great fun to fly.
Took around 25 minutes to climb to 10,000 feet, so by the time you got there you were too cold to do anything else but descend as quick as you could.
But you could do aerobatics in em where you couldn't in a Jodel or a cessna.

John.B

 

[The_Stig]

You could probably pull a lazy eight in a Cessna and be safe but I wouldn't want to try much else...

 

[John. B]

A nice sober aircraft the Cessna

John. B

 

[9fingers]

Going back to the subject, I think I would put the projector in the most unobtrusive place possible - say up on the ceiling with a wireless video link to your X box (and any other video sources you might want now or later)
You will need to think about getting the heat away from the projector to keep the bulb life up as much as poss. The replacement bulb costs are pretty high on these things.

hth

Bob

 

[The_Stig]

Thankfully I've never flown one, I'm a Piper man myself