Complete Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror Tutorial (Newbie Friendly)
Setting up a Raspberry Pi to run a Magic Mirror on can be a bit daunting if you haven’t used a raspberry pi or a linux computer before. But it isn’t as hard as...
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This Guy Made an Amazing Touch Screen Smart Mirror – Here’s how he did it
Almost two years ago, Ryan Nelwan posted a video on reddit showing a pretty cool smart mirror he built and programmed himself. People were amazed, and rightly so, since this mirror was something else....
How To: Make a Touch Enabled Smart Mirror
One of the most searched terms on this website is “touch”, which seems to point to the fact that people really want to have their smart mirrors touch enabled. But is it possible? In...
Introducing the Magic Mirror Dashboard Generator!
For a while I’ve had the idea of setting up a system that allows anyone to create and host a magic mirror dashboard by simply filling in a few variables. So I recently went...
How to: Install a PIR motion sensor on your Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror
Some people don’t want their magic mirror to be constantly on, for example during the night or when no one’s home. There is an easy solution to this, just install a PIR sensor! You...
Installing Magic Mirror² on a Raspberry Pi Zero
The MagicMirror² platform isn’t designed to run on a Raspberry Pi Zero out of the box, but it’s definitely possible to get it working. I’ve used it on one of my Magic Mirrors in...
Get Google Assistant on Your Magic Mirror!
Since Google first announced the Google Assistant back in May of 2016, a lot has changed. It has gotten smarter, adopted more widely and has an open SDK by now. And now you can...
10 Magic Mirror Modules You Have to Check Out
There are a lot of 3rd party modules available for the MagicMirror platform that runs on the Raspberry Pi. The platform has hundreds of users that have contributed many great modules that you can...
Making a Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror From Scratch
Finally! My Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror is complete. For the last months I’ve been trying to find the time to build another magic mirror. I’ve been scavenging parts for a while, and...
How to: Use Chromecast on your Magic Mirror
A few days ago I was looking through the Google Play Store and discovered two apps that can enable you to use your Chromecast for a magic mirror project, instead of, say a Raspberry Pi,...
