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If you want to build an interactive programmable mirror, looks like Nanogest might be useful: http://www.nanocritical.com/nanogest/ It's available for both iOS and Android. It recognizes 4 swipe gestures (top, down, left, right) and a wave gesture. It's a library so you'd still have to build the information display part.
If you want to build an interactive programmable mirror, looks like Nanogest might be useful: http://www.nanocritical.com/nanogest/ It's available for both iOS and Android. It recognizes 4 swipe gestures (top, down, left, right) and a wave gesture. It's a library so you'd still have to build the information display part.
Thanks for the link! Is this really a state of the art right now? I was a bit disappointed when I saw the video... Gestures look awkward.
That weather readout would look great with some slick weather icons: https://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/
I'm using these for my smart mirror project, and tied them by index to the Yahoo Weather API.[1][2] There isn't a perfect one-to-one relationship between the API codes and the icons, but it's pretty close. My one complaint about the icons is that they flow outside of the boundaries of what you'd expect them to be contained in, which can lead to some accidental overlap if you aren't careful with your margins. [1] http…
On first glance I thought the mirror said "Wear pants today" as if the mirror should know whether or not my legs will get cold...
Look at the weather report, if [high, expected, min] temperature below X degrees, suggest pants. Simple!
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Perhaps a light sensor? You are not going to use your mirror in a dark room. Unless you want the display to show up in the dark, but personally I wouldn't want that.
That wouldn't work during the day if your bathroom has a window (it'd be on all day). I think the simplest way to do it would be to tie it in directly to your light switch. (Note that the light switch wouldn't be controlling power to the Android device, it would merely be a data signal determining whether the display should be on.)
If you have a window, tying it to the light switch would be ideal. Or you could simply add a small button next to the light switch.
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That's funny, I've actually been doing the exact same thing, RPi2 and a Hover. I have a few blog posts about it here which I was going to post after the project is finished.[1] I actually just bought all the wood to build the frame and I'll hopefully be doing next weekend. [1] http://alaycock.github.io/blog/
If I'm not mistaken, I see that I'm not the only one still using a Dell XPS M1330 after so many years :)
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This is a mirror that, from only the pictures shown: - Tells you the date and time - Tells you the weather (and suggestions!) - Tells you the temperature - Can list your to-do list and major reminders - Shows (personalized!) stock market updates - Shows xkcd - Is a mirror It could clearly do so much more, but on a typical weekday morning before work that's an easy, efficient way to get a number of morning "tasks" don…
So everything your phone does already with a swipe of a finger? I might be underestimating how this might be important in your daily morning routine, but I can fairly well tell the weather by looking thru the window. My alarm is set on phone and I'll have pretty good estimate how much time I've spend in shower. To-do looks somewhat useful if you actually update it. It's something your phone already does. Personally i…
The entire point of this is that this is a household object that you need anyway, but that it leaks information that might be useful to you. So you would skip the step of taking out your phone and checking xyz. Yes, you'll only save 30 seconds or so of your time. But that's every day and that's one step you don't have to remember to do.
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I'm using these for my smart mirror project, and tied them by index to the Yahoo Weather API.[1][2] There isn't a perfect one-to-one relationship between the API codes and the icons, but it's pretty close. My one complaint about the icons is that they flow outside of the boundaries of what you'd expect them to be contained in, which can lead to some accidental overlap if you aren't careful with your margins. [1] http…
I have updated these quite a bit, the bounding boxes are fixed and there are various API mapping a including yahoo. Check it out.
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So everything your phone does already with a swipe of a finger? I might be underestimating how this might be important in your daily morning routine, but I can fairly well tell the weather by looking thru the window. My alarm is set on phone and I'll have pretty good estimate how much time I've spend in shower. To-do looks somewhat useful if you actually update it. It's something your phone already does. Personally i…
Yes, your phone can do everything that this mirror can and more. Well, except work as a mirror. The entire point of this is that this is a household object that you need anyway , but that it leaks information that might be useful to you. So you would skip the step of taking out your phone and checking xyz. Yes, you'll only save 30 seconds or so of your time. But that's every day and that's one step you don't have to…
It does have a front facing camera ;)