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<blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 5273590" data-attributes="member: 1356">Also- I had another idea for a portable projector setup that would be excellent for toting around a con. Do something similar to falcarrion's pole mount but rig it to a <a href="http://www.google.com/products?client=hp&amp;expIds=17259,23051,25241,25798&amp;sugexp=ldymls&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=folding%20hand%20truck&amp;cp=11&amp;rls=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wf" target="_blank">folding hand truck</a>. Put your books in a plastic crate at the bottom (makes them easy to move and gives stability) with the pole mounted projector against the back. Put your laptop bag on the crate. Attach a power strip and extension cord and hook everything up. Then when your ready to game all you have to do is wheel the whole thing up to the edge of the table. Extend the projector mount to the right height and plug in the extension cord and your good to go!The idea came from a lan party computer rig a friend of mine had years ago. He had both his server and gaming computers mounted on a hand truck and hooked to one monitor with a switch. Everything was connected to a 20 port router, power strip and wind-up extension cord (that were also attached). He would just wheel the thing in, plug it into the wall and we were set. Everyone would hook to his router, he'd switch to the server and set up the game, then switch to the other computer to game. Worked great! Shows what you can do with a hand truck and some imagination, as far as portable electronics setups go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FoxWander, post: 5273590, member: 1356"] Also- I had another idea for a portable projector setup that would be excellent for toting around a con. Do something similar to falcarrion's pole mount but rig it to a [URL="http://www.google.com/products?client=hp&expIds=17259,23051,25241,25798&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=folding%20hand%20truck&cp=11&rls=ig&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf"]folding hand truck[/URL]. Put your books in a plastic crate at the bottom (makes them easy to move and gives stability) with the pole mounted projector against the back. Put your laptop bag on the crate. Attach a power strip and extension cord and hook everything up. Then when your ready to game all you have to do is wheel the whole thing up to the edge of the table. Extend the projector mount to the right height and plug in the extension cord and your good to go! The idea came from a lan party computer rig a friend of mine had years ago. He had both his server and gaming computers mounted on a hand truck and hooked to one monitor with a switch. Everything was connected to a 20 port router, power strip and wind-up extension cord (that were also attached). He would just wheel the thing in, plug it into the wall and we were set. Everyone would hook to his router, he'd switch to the server and set up the game, then switch to the other computer to game. Worked great! Shows what you can do with a hand truck and some imagination, as far as portable electronics setups go. [/QUOTE]

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