Magic mirror pi software#
I've searched the web for Harry Potter fonts so i could use them in the CSS files of the MagicMirror2 software then started working on the front and back sides of the white enclosure. Using the glue gun and a lot of glue I've fixed any loose cables and made a groove in the wooden frame for the power cables going outside. An USB extender cable was connected to one of the four USB ports and I cut a hole in the frame and white plastic case so that she would have the option to attach external storage devices or USB keyboards. A GPIO cable inserted in the frame made the connection between the Skywriter HAT and the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi. Then glued that case to the inside of the frame at the back of the monitor. I got a plastic Raspberry Pi case for the 3 B+ and installed the SBC inside. I've used a leather tool to make grooves into it so it could easily be folded at the edges.
Luckily this foam-like plastic was easy to cut and shape. The rest of the white plastic was to be cut and folded around the back of the monitor. I've used the glue gun again to fix the screen into this frame. Polished the inner edges of the rectangle with sand paper until they fit perfectly. The I've painted that tape black with a magic marker and acrylic paint.Īfter measuring the screen width and height I've cut a rectangle just 3mm smaller than those measurements into the white plastic that was to be the cover. I'be painted all iner LEDs with black acrylic paint, glued every small opening in the frame, took a roll of paper adhesive tape and applied it carefully over it. 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.
Magic mirror pi how to#
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.
Magic mirror pi Pc#
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.
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