Spy Car with 4k Laser Projector!

Hey everyone we've got a really cool project for you this week as you know I love movies like a lot, and it would be really awesome to go to the drive-in theater to watch a blockbuster film in my 1979 MGB spy car the problem is most drive-ins around here have actually closed which is a real shame because I really wanted to go on an old-school date and as you guys know I'm working on a spy car right now... I'm talking rocket launchers under the headlights a grappling hook launcher in the grill and for romantic nights out a built-in projector so you have a movie theater wherever you want yeah that's right I'm gonna be making my own personal drive-in movie theater in fact LG liked our idea so much they decided to partner with us on this project to help us make it super epic. They sent us their new CineBeam 4k laser projector it's one of the brightest and smallest consumer projectors on the market it's transformative design allows it to be used almost anywhere okay so I've got my classic car and this awesome projector all I have to do is put them together and I'll have the ultimate portable drive-in movie theater the only hard part of this project will be finding a date... Well that's a future Hacksmith problem let's get started! So this car was made in 1979 that actually makes it 11 years older than I am and personally I think this is the perfect vehicle for a drive-in movie theater now all we have to do is figure out a way to power the projector off of the car and mount it. Just gonna plug it in and we can see where we can mount this... that's not too bad, now where else can we put it maybe something like this Now this is a rather small car but luckily the projector is pretty compact so I think we could fit it around here somewhere but we might have to design some kind of mechanism Now the funny thing is before I quit my job to do YouTube full-time I actually worked for a company that designed and made digital movie projectors the only difference is they're about a hundred thousand dollars and absolutely massive it's actually really impressive to see that LG has been able to shrink this technology down into a consumer product that's actually a very affordable price. Mounting this permanently in the car is actually gonna be a bit of a challenge so let's go to the computer and start looking at some 3D models All right so to make the mechanism to actually raise the projector out of the MG so we can point it at the movie theater screen we're actually gonna design it in CAD, now the software we use is called Solidworks and the reason we use the software is because both Ian and I have a lot of experience with it I'm talking over ten years I'm actually a certified SolidWorks professional the other software we're gonna be using is called grabCAD now grabCAD is actually a website that allows you to share your 3d models with everyone else in the world for free and actually we have a lot of our projects on there if you guys want to check out our profile there's a link in the description below but the other feature it has is a private cloud for you to share your projects with other people in your business or your team so we actually had Bogdan measure up the projector and create a rough model of the projector which will allow us to design the mechanism around it so let's just add in some of the parts so we're gonna be using a linear actuator to actually move the projector they're easy to use, they're electrically powered, they take about 12 volts, make a bracket, add in some other parts and there we go one projector mechanism and as you can see goes from close position all the way up into open all right let's build it Alright gonna cut out side pieces, pull that out, set it down, then just have to trace out pattern And then we just cut it out! oh really really really really no I'm No, I'm just kidding we're actually gonna be using our maverick CNC plasma cutter they've got from elite metal tools I've already loaded the dxf in so I just need to press go and it'll cut it out If you guys are curious about how the circuit actually works check out the circuit diagram at maker.IO all right now that bogdan's finished up with electronics we are ready to permanently install this into the car! oh man this is heavy why do we make all of our projects so heavy this projector was so light before we added all this steel to it. Now we just have to screw it down Plus, the projector ships with two wood screws for installing into your spy car All right now that we've got the projector mounted in the car we need to power it somehow the funny thing is consumer electronics actually run off of DC power what you find in a battery but because they're designed to be plugged into the wall which uses AC the power supply inside of consumer electronics actually converts AC to DC to power the electronics now a car battery which is 12 volts DC would actually run most electronics but we don't want to take apart the projector to bypass its internal power converter so what we're going to do is actually get a power inverter now this will take 12 volts DC and convert it to 120 volts AC which will feed into the projector which will then convert it back to DC, woohoo! electricity now the protector itself is actually extremely power efficient because it uses lasers we used a power meter to see how much power it actually draws from the wall and it's only a hundred and fifty two watts that's like two lightbulbs old-style projectors that use xenon lamps are more like 1500 watts or ten times the energy consumption as this projector which is really cool so we actually kind of oversized the inverter just a little bit this is actually a 2000 watt power inverter and the reason we did that was we're planning more gadgets for the car and we want to make sure we have enough power to power everything That's less than a light bulb, and it's 3000 lumens! How do they do it? but the ultimate test it's overkill power supply it's for the car to power the projector we make our portable drive-in movie theater and the only concern I have is this does not actually put out a pure sine wave as you would get from the wall, it puts out a modified sine wave, whatever that means so hopefully that's not an issue... hooray! Isn't that a beautiful image Now what's a spy car without a license plate flipper now unfortunately license plate flippers are illegal so what we're actually going to do is going to put a decorative license plate flipper on there while maintaining the real license plate right here the control box complete with remote control all right so we've got all electronics in the trunk now and as you can see we actually put a second car battery in the trunk as well and that's to power all of our auxiliary spy gadgets but I think we're missing one thing Ian yeah that's right a Hacksmith Industries branded fire extinguisher! Alright now we can test it Alright so inside the cigarette ashtray we can turn on the inverter like so now it should lower Thanks now we just plug in the projector like so until I open it right there and if you put switch the other way up it goes Adjust the mirror hey gotta turn lights off, lights! not too bad all right that works pretty good now it's time to go on my date Man, why did I pick such a far location to do the drive-in it's really boring Wait a sec... closed good thing I brought my own Well, nothing beats an old drive-in movie theater especially when you bring it wherever you want to go now time to watch my favorite youtuber Alright that works pretty darn good this projector is 2500 lumens which is super bright for a home theater projector it's recommended maximum screen size is 150 inches but even projecting a video on the entire side of a gray building it was still completely watchable now for our final test we're gonna set up our own proper size 150 inch screen in the park and have our own little drive-in movie theater for the entire neighborhood let's get set up all righty show's over Alright that was awesome huge thank you to LG for sponsoring this project and if you guys want to learn more about the CineBeam 4k laser projector check out my links below it truly is an awesome projector as for our spy car make sure you subscribed with notifications turned on, we will be adding jet engines tire spikes, missiles, smoke screens, lasers and more very soon

Channel: the Hacksmith

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Id: D1zJ6myvS4w

Length: 18min 31sec (1111 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 31 2018