Just a few days ago, I thought to myself... "We are in 2023 but still no smart mirrors" like in "The 6th Day" Arnold Schwarzenegger film. ^_^ Very cool project.
How to build a super-slim smart mirror
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Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
#42I have some friends that have a bedroom wall TV that is a mirror, when it's off.
I suspect that it cost quite a bit. They have a nice crib.
Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
#43I have some friends that have a bedroom wall TV that is a mirror, when it's off. I suspect that it cost quite a bit. They have a nice crib.
All my TVs are mirrors when they're off. Just really bad mirrors.
Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
#44I made one of these (not this fancy, just a recycled Android tablet mounted behind one-way mirror glass, running a home-made app) and highly recommend it. I was 100% prepared for it to be a novelty that we got bored of in a few months, but eight years later it's still awesome! You can see my mirror and app code at https://github.com/ineptech/mirror but the version in the play store is outdated (weather and stock tick…
> I experimented with both touch and voice support but didn't like either. . I already have laptops and tablets aplenty to interact with, I prefer to use this mirror like a clock - glance at it when I want to information, and otherwise ignore it.
Clearly the answer is machine vision/camera/gesture input :)
Maybe expression recognition - smile for weather, frown for stock ticker... :)
Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
#45How are there exactly zero photos showing how slim this thing is/isn't!?! EDIT: In other news, the settings menu of Pi Imager is brilliant. It automagically fills in your RSA public key, your WiFi details, and other time-saving details. I can't believe how hard we had to fight the RPi devs to make the feature usable and stop hiding it behind a weird keypress combo (to the point we released a fork). They were obsessed…
It's sad that the Raspberry Pi, which was originally conceived as a simple and accessible computer for people to learn new skills, has become so intertwined with the user-unfriendliness of Linux. (The comparison with the simplicity of the original BBC Micro is comical.) You give one example of how the devs (who, of course, fully 'get' Linux and are fully bought in to the experience) have seemingly little insight into…
I don't think Linux is user-unfriendly if you want to learn how computers work. Also, if you want computers for the use cases that a RaspberryPi is intended for, then what other OS choice is there? Heck, just having an OS is an overkill of luxury for most of those projects to begin with.
It's unfortunate that you had such a bad experience, but it sounds like you might have had unhelpful expectations.
Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
#46How are there exactly zero photos showing how slim this thing is/isn't!?! EDIT: In other news, the settings menu of Pi Imager is brilliant. It automagically fills in your RSA public key, your WiFi details, and other time-saving details. I can't believe how hard we had to fight the RPi devs to make the feature usable and stop hiding it behind a weird keypress combo (to the point we released a fork). They were obsessed…
It's sad that the Raspberry Pi, which was originally conceived as a simple and accessible computer for people to learn new skills, has become so intertwined with the user-unfriendliness of Linux. (The comparison with the simplicity of the original BBC Micro is comical.) You give one example of how the devs (who, of course, fully 'get' Linux and are fully bought in to the experience) have seemingly little insight into…
Probable that easy reinstall and mass deploy are the goal as opposed to "less confusing".
Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
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#48How are there exactly zero photos showing how slim this thing is/isn't!?! EDIT: In other news, the settings menu of Pi Imager is brilliant. It automagically fills in your RSA public key, your WiFi details, and other time-saving details. I can't believe how hard we had to fight the RPi devs to make the feature usable and stop hiding it behind a weird keypress combo (to the point we released a fork). They were obsessed…
It's sad that the Raspberry Pi, which was originally conceived as a simple and accessible computer for people to learn new skills, has become so intertwined with the user-unfriendliness of Linux. (The comparison with the simplicity of the original BBC Micro is comical.) You give one example of how the devs (who, of course, fully 'get' Linux and are fully bought in to the experience) have seemingly little insight into…
Somewhat hilariously they only relented on their refusal to make it easy to set WiFi and ssh up in the imager after somebody forked it and added those features.
Anyway I totally agree with you. I wish the Pi had decent support for writing bare metal code in the same way you would write microcontroller projects. 90% of the time all you want it to do is connect to wifi, and run one single program.
Running full Linux for that makes it actively worse than a unikernel / FreeRTOS style solution. But I expect the difficulty of making WiFi, USB, cameras, etc. work without Linux is too great.
Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
#49The text says not to go lower than 300 nits for the display, but the linked display is 250 nits?
Re: How to build a super-slim smart mirror
#50There is still no touch input. If the display has PCAP that can't reach through the mirror then this type of module would add touch on top of the mirror. https://neonode.com/technologies/zforce/touch-sensor-modules
Fingerprints on the mirror won't look that great though.
Oleophobic coating mirror but that will add to the cost