Created a CRT/LCD combo type monitor.

[psiomicron]

In someway I'm a CRT purist when it comes to coin op arcade games (and old consoles as well). However, I have found it very time consuming and expensive to either fix or replace 25 inch CRTs in my arcade cab. I have found a happy medium. I have created a CRT lens and combined it with an LCD screen. Along with running the proper CRT shader it comes extremely close to a real CRT. I made a mold of a 25 inch crt screen and then casted the screen out of epoxy. After sanding and polishing I combined it with an LCD that fit close to the dimension. See pics and video example in the link below.

See link for more pictures and video of the project:

https://imgur.com/a/KVkXHkG

[Rocketeer2001]

Nice! Maximum effort!

Curious, why didn't you vacuum form or heat form a piece of acrylic over the mold instead of pouring resin and sanding/polishing?

[psiomicron]

If I use an acrylic sheet for the screen it wouldn't bend the light as it should, it needs to be a solid lens. It would be like putting a tupperware bowl over the screen, just be a plastic window on the screen and wouldnt look like a CRT should. Now if you meat why didnt I use an acrylic sheet for a mold of the origional CRT then cast an epoxy lens from that... because I wanted to be able to cast multiple lenses, protoypes, back ups, etc. and didn't know how many I could cast using and acrylic mold vs silicon. Silicon I was able to make multiple. I may try the vacuum forming as molds later for different CRT sizes.