This blog explains how to program your individual personal weather chart, to predict when it will rain or snow, down to the minute, at your exact location. Weather charts are fantastic. You’ll need them almost every day, they are tiny and filled with hopefully trust able information. But to arrange several information in one small size of […]
The Idea To watch movies from time to time on a canvas is the most comfortable position, I decided to place the projector right under my bed. In case it’s not used I would just slip it under the bed frame. An easy solution was found by using a cardboard box, but after some days […]
This blog shows the costs, used parts and summarizes the main challenges I experienced when building my smart mirror. The Summary When I first run into the MagicMirror project I was convinced this was something I wanted to build on my own. Without the amazing work and the easy to use framework by Michael Teeuw, this wouldn’t […]
The Assembling 1Time to put everything together. Or with other words let’s say: ‘Grab the duct tape, we’re building a magic mirror’. First a little soldering was needed, to power up the TV screen without using the normal power cable for space reasons. At the bottom of the TV screen a black cardboard prevent […]
The Camera One of the first modules for the magicmirror framework I had to try myself, was the face-recognition module by paviro. After experimenting some time with the software I was fully convinced. The Mirror needed a camera. For keeping the ‘magic’ in the mirror, It’s was not an option to mount the camera outside the […]
The Frame With the decision regarding screen and mirror taken final dimensions were clear and the fun with constructing a frame could begin. To get a thin product with a solid and industrial look I wanted to use a bent enclosure out of sheet metal. With the kind help of my flatmate, who owns a […]
The Mirror The “magic” of this project is made by a semi-transparent mirror. When one side of the mirror is brighter than the other it behaves like a window. Otherwise it’s a regular mirror. To give the glass more stability and to avoid the risk of cutting myself, I found it worth investing in polished […]
The Screen Finding the right monitor or HDTV To get the exact size of the mirror-glass and frame a decision for the monitor was needed. The pc monitor I was looking for was: About 27″ to get a width from 41 cm in portrait orientation As thin as possible Power and video connector needed to […]
The Idea Just like the cool guys in there space ships, I was fascinated by the idea of a centralised info board in our home, to show personal info for your day or actual states of our smart home. Then I stumpled about the Magic Mirror project from Michael Teeuw and was convinced. Without a […]