Great timing on this video. I just ordered an HD DLP last week. I should have it in 6-8 weeks, as I live in a 3rd world country now.

I was shocked they had highly rated SD DLP projectors for LESS THAN $100. I went with the $600 true HD version though with 20x more light output.

But this video also really helps me further conceptualize and realize my solar powered death ray. I want to have a 10,000 one inch mirrors hooked to independently, hyper accurate micro-servos, then have the whole array on a large servo controlled panel that angles towards the sun. With the right control logic, you can have 10,000x the power of the sun focused onto a single, movable, virtual target 1 inch in size. Hot.

Man, I waited nine minutes for this guy to shock the crap out of himself and nothing.

The Ti DLP chip is the most commercially successful MEMS device created. I own a DLP projector(720p) and a rear projection Mitsubishi DLP TV (1080p). I like that DLP chips can give you 3D (in a checkerboard pattern) basically for "free", and it looks better, IMHO, than other 3D displays which also use active-shutter glasses.

Some nitpicking - most home DLP projectors use a 6-color wheel, not 3.

He also didn't mention that most digital movie theaters use DLP - although this is a a more expensive system, because there are 3 light sources and 3 DLP chips (RGB) instead of having a color wheel - and they are larger chips with more mirrors.

Worked in the TI wafer-fab in the late 90's when They first started producing the DLP chips. OH god where they hard to produce. The failure rate was through the roof. We had companies begging for more of the chips and we just could not produce them fast enough. On a standard 6 or 8 in. wafer (the largest we produced at the time) you may of gotten one good chip. The upper management was on our case constantly and we kept telling them we are doing the best we could with the equipment we had. Everything went downhill from there. They killed our vacation and sick days, Changed the way people could get fired. Moral tanked and we just stopped giving a shit. One bout of flu and then an accidental food poisoning and poof I was gone. Seven years wasted. Have not looked back since.

Lol. Right. I was curious and tried to Google the price of one and didn't have much success... admittedly I spent like less than 2 minutes before giving up (aka I scanned the first page and first page of shopping), but near as I can see, a good optical microscope will cost $2-4k, with most high end hobby ones around $3-500 range. I doubt there's a hobby range in SEMs. The only one I saw during that minute and a half search was a used one for $25k another for $27k and an auction listing that went for $2k (which compared to others seems out of price). Anyhow, between the auction price and the used listings, I figure roughly you are looking at $5-25k if you know where to look... Who knows what actually spending more time would have given me, but either way, I'm fairly sure a SEM is beyond most people's budgets.

Most of those scientific equipment doesn't have list prices on web stores. I would guess $200k+ for new (some are over $1M), depending on the scannable area and resolution. There have been "desktop" models released recently, but no idea how much they cost (still likely more than $50k)

Plus most home users probably would be difficult to get liquid nitrogen and liquid hydrogen delivered (there's a certification process).