HowTo: Convert Your Old Laptop into a Projector

 Wish you had $1000 to throw down for a projector? Well, if you have an old laptop lying around instead, here is a simple way to cheaply build your own digital projector. Lifehacker posts a HowTo excerpted from DIYer Randy Sarafan's 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer: (And Other Discarded Electronics).

You Will Need:

• LCD monitor or laptop with a broken backlight
• Mini screwdriver set
• Cardboard box, the same height as the projector bed
• Overhead projector (available on eBay or Craigslist, or at Office Max)
• Small fan
• four 1/2" spacers
• DVDs!

Click through to Lifehacker for the full HowTo.