Game on!!!
Wow, time to post!
We have been hugely busy, both at work and home, (who wouldn't be with 6...count em...6...dogs to take care of). But I can now proudly reveal the biggest recent project....wait for it... The NEW IMPROVED Gameroom!! For a while now we have been too lazy to actually use graph paper to map when we are playing DnD, so we hung an old projector from the ceiling in the "gameroom" aka the spare bedroom, and projected maps onto a whiteboard topped table. This has always worked great, allowing notes to be scribbled and progress to be mapped....but it had a huge major flaw. It wasn't portable, and since we live somewhat in the boonies....way up in the redwoods of Santa Cruz Mountains, we always had problems holding a good sized group of players and convincing them to haul ass 20-30 miles on a mid week night, play til midnight and then drive home. To their credit there have been and still are a few hardy souls who do this, including our "core player" Sarah, who has been in this from the beginning, and for whom the gameroom morphs into a bedroom each week.
Cool ain't it?? You have no idea how hard it was to figure out how to suspend the mirror...lol.
In the end we used a studio boom mic stand, a drum kit clamp to make a small shelf for the projector to sit on, and the door from a bathroom cabinet (it already had hinges so that adjustments are much easier), which we hung from the boom and tilted to direct the image to the table top. Its first outing will be tomorrow night, so watch this space!!
We have been hugely busy, both at work and home, (who wouldn't be with 6...count em...6...dogs to take care of). But I can now proudly reveal the biggest recent project....wait for it... The NEW IMPROVED Gameroom!! For a while now we have been too lazy to actually use graph paper to map when we are playing DnD, so we hung an old projector from the ceiling in the "gameroom" aka the spare bedroom, and projected maps onto a whiteboard topped table. This has always worked great, allowing notes to be scribbled and progress to be mapped....but it had a huge major flaw. It wasn't portable, and since we live somewhat in the boonies....way up in the redwoods of Santa Cruz Mountains, we always had problems holding a good sized group of players and convincing them to haul ass 20-30 miles on a mid week night, play til midnight and then drive home. To their credit there have been and still are a few hardy souls who do this, including our "core player" Sarah, who has been in this from the beginning, and for whom the gameroom morphs into a bedroom each week.
Cool ain't it?? You have no idea how hard it was to figure out how to suspend the mirror...lol.
In the end we used a studio boom mic stand, a drum kit clamp to make a small shelf for the projector to sit on, and the door from a bathroom cabinet (it already had hinges so that adjustments are much easier), which we hung from the boom and tilted to direct the image to the table top. Its first outing will be tomorrow night, so watch this space!!