Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector
Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector No comments by: Tyler August July 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you ever make it to DNA Pizza in San Francisco, you may feel as though you’re being watched. Or, it was, until the out-of-production and now very expensive spherical projector gave up the ghost during a power outage. Thanks to proprietor [Jamie Zawinski] and some cheap, absolutely-not-supposed-to-be-in-there replacement parts.
- ▪Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector No comments by: Tyler August July 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you ever make it to DNA Pizza in San Francisco, you may feel as though you’re being watched.
- ▪Or, it was, until the out-of-production and now very expensive spherical projector gave up the ghost during a power outage.
- ▪Thanks to proprietor [Jamie Zawinski] and some cheap, absolutely-not-supposed-to-be-in-there replacement parts.
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Pizza Eye Surgery Saves Hemispherical Projector No comments by: Tyler August July 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy If you ever make it to DNA Pizza in San Francisco, you may feel as though you’re being watched. The Eye of the Pizza is Upon You. Or, it was, until the out-of-production and now very expensive spherical projector gave up the ghost during a power outage. It’s back, though! Thanks to proprietor [Jamie Zawinski] and some cheap, absolutely-not-supposed-to-be-in-there replacement parts. The saga started long ago, back in 2017, when [Jamie] got ahold of a Gekkin WorldEye hemispherical projector. It looks like those were meant for the educational market, to show planets and the like, but [Jamie] instead put a big eye on it, thanks in part to work by [PaintYourDragon].
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