Posts

Magic Mirror

Image
I've put together a relatively straightforward Magic Mirror so thought I would share how I did it. If you don't know, a Magic Mirror is a mirror that displays information like weather, calendar events, or news alongside your reflection. This is my second attempt at building a Magic Mirror. My first try was fun - I enjoyed setting up the Raspberry Pi and getting the code to work - but I lost steam when it came to framing it with the two-way glass and eventually gave up. This time I've persevered and figured out a relatively simple way of putting together a frameless design. I've included some (affiliate) links and costs below if you want to replicate what I have done 😁 Raspberry PI 3 First step is getting the software up and running, this is a lot simpler than you might think and a lot of fun thanks to the work of the community supporting MagicMirror2 I used a Raspberry PI 3 that I had lying around, I won't go into the detail of how I set that up as the documentati...