![]() If light gets in the two-way mirror won't diplay clear text. Since I've abandoned the idea of adding a Touch PHAT and a Vu-Meter I had a more simplistic design in the end.Īfter fixing and glueing in the Skywriter HAT I've had to make sure that no light gets in the case from the outside. Cutting and glueing and fixing everything together took me almost two days but in the end the screen was firmly fixed in the wooden frame and the frame was solid enough to hold it. The second frame was there more to hold the lower part of the first frame and support most of the weight of the monitor. I've actually decided to build a second frame because I was afraid the first one was not sturdy enough. I've dug a place for the Skywriter HAT in the wood, below the lower part of the screen just enough so it could fit in there and let a GPIO cable go through. After fixing everything withscrews and mounting the screen inside the frame I've reinforced the wood with glue and hinges and sealed the outer edges of the screen inside it with the silicon glue gun. Although the wood was pine and therefore soft, cutting it and assembling a frame took up most of my time. It was perfect because this could be hidden behind the plastic cover practically anywhere, as long as there were at most 5 milmeteres thickness between the outer surface of the enclosure and the surface of the Surface HAT. You touch the enclosure it's sealed into and it registers the tap or double-tap. ![]() You make a spiral in the air in front of it and it does something. You swipe in front of it and it performs actins. Then I've decided that I can use a Sckywriter HAT that is a gesture-based controller. ![]() The initial plan was to ad a Touch PHAT for her to be able to switch between screens and/or start playing music or browse through RSS feed and e-mails. I had to know where and how to cut the wood and how to superimpose a case in such a way that it would both look nice but also be study enough to sustain the weight of the monitor.īelow are the preliminary schematics I've made. Next I drew up some plans on my Sony DPT-RP1 eReader to better guide me in what I was doing and to make sure that all the parts would fit perfectly when assembled. I've stripped the screen of all the plastic parts, unscrewed the stand and cleaned the remaining parts with medicinal alcohol. The two-way acrylic mirror I've bought from eBay from a Chinese seller. Several types of screws, glue, hinges and a foam-like sheet of white matte plastic, about 3mm thin, that was easy to cut. The Raspberry Pi 3 B+ had a 16GB MicroSD cart and I've installed Raspbian on it with a standard desktop booting with autologin. Since it was gathering dust I thought this project might make good use of this screen. The screen had an 1280x1024px resolution and it came from my father's old office PC that he discarded when he retired. There's a Linux software called "MagicMirror 2" that does all of the work so I only had to deal with the hardware for now. I took a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, a Skywriter HAT for gesture control, an old 17” LCD monitor and some cables and set to work. So when her birthday approached I've decided I'll gift her something special. Visit Michael’s website to see a step-by-step guide to replicating this project at home.A friend of mine is a Harry Potter fan. (I’m noticing some additions to the codebase have been made since he put the project on his blog, most notably an alert that tells him to empty the dishwasher.) He’s also made detailed wiring instructions available, along with all of his code. Michael has done all the hard work with the interface, and integrating all the information he needs when gazing at his own beauteous visage: namely a nice uplifting compliment, the weather, clock and calendar, and a news feed. With one-way mirror glass (the sort they use in TV-show and, for all I know, real-life police interrogation rooms) mounted over a flat display device, outputting white text on a black background, the effects you can achieve are rather special, especially if, like Michael, you really care about typography.īest of all, for most people the hardest bit of reproducing this project at home won’t be the Raspberry Pi end – frankly, the bit we’d expect you to find most tricky is making the wooden frame. Being one of those people whose minds tend to wander in the frocks department, he decided he’d go home and make a better one. Michael Teeuw was out shopping with his girlfriend, when he noticed a display mirror with illuminated lighting.
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