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A fully functional Super 8 Movie Projector I built using Lego Technic. The only non-Lego parts are the lens, the reel spindles and the lamp.

The projector uses just two engines and is fully featured with automatic feeding, 24 fps, fast rewind and 120m reel capabilities. A decent LED flashlight makes it pretty amazingly bright. :)

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  • Claus Harding 1 year ago
    Love it! Ingenious.
    I'd say go for a Xenon model, but that would melt the projector..:-)
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  • john davis 1 year ago
    This is a work of genius. Terrific.
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  • J. Van Auken 1 year ago
    Somebody get this guy a job at NASA
  • Andrew David Baron 9 months ago
    What? NASA? More like the leader of the FREE WORLD! Muuuahahahahahhahahaha...cough...cough...what? Why is everyone looking at me weird?
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  • Brian Dzyak 1 year ago
    Very cool! Please submit this idea to the Lego company. Would love to see it at Toys R Us someday!

    Either that, or please provide schematics. Thanks!
  • Friedemann Wachsmuth plus 1 year ago
    I'll try -- but drawing schematics afterwards turns out difficult. :)
  • Andrew David Baron 9 months ago
    Just do a super long live DEMO of recreating it. Forget schematics. :D
  • Friedemann Wachsmuth plus 9 months ago
    I'll shoot myself on Super-8 while disassembling it, good idea! :)
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  • Andersens Tears 1 year ago
    I never thought I would swear on Vimeo, but this is F - ING amazing! Well done!
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  • Super8punk 1 year ago
    Very cool!!!!
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  • Michael Koshkin plus 11 months ago
    Amazing.
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  • Black Maria Studios 9 months ago
    Shut the fuck up. This is awesome!
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  • Simon Tarr plus 9 months ago
    Everything I have ever done is so completely lame in comparison to this.
  • Friedemann Wachsmuth plus 9 months ago
    :)
  • Thomas Bertin 9 months ago
    Join the club :/
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  • Thomas Bertin 9 months ago
    That is incredible. You are not human.
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  • Andrew David Baron 9 months ago
    You're a genius! Blueprints for sale? I would love to build something like this for my studio. Yeah...this pretty much is the cat's MEOW! Kudos!
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  • Chuck Spidell 9 months ago
    Holy bejesus.
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  • Ray Roman 9 months ago
    Coool! (with 3 o's!)
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  • Alfie Barker 9 months ago
    Amazing, how long did it take?
  • Friedemann Wachsmuth plus 9 months ago
    We started on a cozy weekend in our cabin at the sea and continued on several hour-ish night sessions... total probably about 25 hours. Lots of trial and error before it all worked smoothly.
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  • Bo Lorentzen plus 9 months ago
    AWESOME..! very clean design too.
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  • JoeA 9 months ago
    Excellent build & video! The functionality is quite something.

    Where did you buy the lens that you used? I've tried googleing the name but haven't turned up any similar results.
  • Friedemann Wachsmuth plus 9 months ago
    It's arandom lens form some cheapo Noris Projector. Nothing special or fancy. I dremel'd a bit of the socket off to make it fit better. Would not do that with a good lens :)
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  • Dale Nash 9 months ago
    Hawaii Five O music. Made me love this video.
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  • Paul Wood plus 9 months ago
    aww man, brilliant!
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  • Robby Cornish 9 months ago
    very nice!
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  • tony luu 9 months ago
    What is the music?
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  • Jan Odenthal 9 months ago
    Legos and Celluloid. Love it!
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  • Sean Hamel staff 9 months ago
    I'm a sucker for anything Lego related, good video
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  • harrison deal 9 months ago
    Raaaaaad
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  • Daniel Faust plus 9 months ago
    You made me very happy with this video :)
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  • Victor A Bartolome 9 months ago
    Brilliance! From one AFOL to another, I say this is genius!
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  • Justin Cary plus 8 months ago
    Genius!!!
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  • Claxomere 8 months ago
    I so love Lego technic !
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  • VHSuper8 2 months ago
    Genial!
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  • Lomography plus 1 month ago
    Good day from the Lomography Community!

    We liked your video so much that we featured it in our Magazine in link to this article: lomography.com/magazine/news/2011/05/25/lego-technic-super-8-movie-projectorn

    Also, for full analogue experience, do visit lomography.com and come check out our channel here in Vimeo! Thank you!
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