Use the terminal again and type in " sudo apt-get update & apt-get upgrade -y", and sit back and relax. Now, it's time to make sure everything is updated.
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Mac users can use ApplePi-Baker to flash SD cards for RPI. And third, choose " Internationalisation Options" and change to you own timeszone.Īfter a suggestion by Hansaplast in the comments, here is a link for people who uses Mac. Second, choose " Boot Options" and then choose to boot to Desctop GUI with the "pi" user. In there, you are going to do three different things. To make the right configurations you need to open the terminal and enter " sudo raspi-config". In my case, I came directly to the desktop on start. Connect to the computer screen, add a mouse and keyboard, and start it. When the write is successful, you just take the SD-card and put it in your Raspberry. Make sure that the destination is the SD-card (in my case D:)Īs you can see in the "Win32"-image, I'm using Raspbian Jessie. Klick on the folder icon and browse to the folder where you have the Raspbian files.
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You can download it at /projects/win32diskimager/. When the ZIP-file is extracted you need Win32 Disk Imager. Put your SD-card in the computer and write down the letter (in my case ). I decided to do my own guide after having a lot of problems during my project, and I figured I could help other people who might end up with the same problems. If they are straight back, you might get a problem if you want to hang it on the wall later on. It will be smaller once the plastic is gone!Īlso, when you get the screen, make sure that the contacts are on one of the sides and not straight back. Remember to don't take the measurements for the mirror until you have opened the screen.
A Raspberry Pi with casing + micro USB power cord.An observation mirror or glas and a mirrorfilm.
A computer screen (that you can take apart).Make sure you are paying attention to if I write just "Raspberry Pi model B" or "Raspberry Pi 2 model B"! The first Raspberry Pi can't really handle the new OS Jessie when the screen is rotated and keep freezing and loosing internet connection. I made this with a Raspberry Pi model B, but I will recommend that you use a Raspberry pi 2 or better. You will use a Raspberry Pi, a computer screen and a webpage to make it look like you have "a smart mirror".Įverything on the mirror will be in Swedish (on the pictures), but I will translate what you need. My USB Microphone set me back £8.99 and my speakers £8.63 so not exactly THX 7.1 but it does the job! You're now ready to make a start on the hardware of your screen.In this project I will show you how I made a Magic Mirror that shows the date, time, some news and a little phrase at the bottom. To try AVS out you're going to need microphone and speakers. Do be warned, our hardware does not house the high-quality and numerous microphones/speakers that amazon lends to it Alexa Smart Devices and some of the AVS is not enabled to non-amazon makeshift devices like the one's we're building, however, its worth the install. The wonderful people at Amazon Web Services have allowed your everyday Joe's like me to take advantage of their awesome Alexa-Voice-Service (AVS).
My personal take is copy/paste and date stamp in a folder of your choice and as you expand your module knowledge and become more confident, you can use tutorials from Grensom including his brilliant Spotify walkthrough.Īgain.as you build upon your experience there's one module that really completes the "Smart" element of the mirror and that's the Alexa -Voice-Service module. So you're probably and hopefully becoming familiar with the structure of your Config.js and the aligned modules but a big bit of advice s backup your Config file when you're happy at certain stages because it is frustrating when Open-Source fails. Another tutorial to help you out at this stage is from Break it Yourself and YouTube tutorial below.
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To write the software onto your SD Card I used balenaEtcher and this worked really well. The best tutorial on connecting the controller to your LCD is from DIY Perks and YouTube tutorial below.īefore you get all excited buying two-way-mirrors etc.I advise that you first get hands-on with the software and you're going to need the SD Card that came with your Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit so that you can download Raspberry Pi Operating System and Magic Mirror software. So at this point I had purchased the Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit from amazon and this is connected to my recycled screen via HDMI/VGA LCD Controller purchased from amazon.
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