Floating Smart Mirror Introduction
Straight out of the future, the smart mirror is simply a display behind a one way mirror. One way mirrors can reflect most of light that hits the surface while still allowing some of the monitor's video behind it passes to the surface of the mirror.
The mirror also has an Amazon Echo Dot hidden behind it to enable all of Alexa's vast voice control features just by calling out to Alexa.
Unlike most of the smart mirror builds that are based of the Magic Mirror OS built for the Raspberry Pi, this smart mirror is built on a windows platform. There's nothing wrong with the Magic Mirror but it hasn't been built to be interactive and mostly displays static information. Furthermore the raspberry pi hardware struggles to do anything more than display static widgets.I wanted to be able to walk up to my smart mirror and be able to give it commands via voice. browse the web and maybe watch some YouTube/Netflix.
One more way my build differs is that I didn't want a frame around my mirror and wanted to maintain a floating glass look rather than building a frame around my smart mirror. To do this I drilled 4 holes into the mirror and attached the frame to these screws in the glass.
So after building this very smart mirror with my raspberry Pi as the brain, I decided to upgrade it to something more powerful, yet I wanted a cheap alternative especially considering how cheap the Raspberry pi is. The best way to do this was to use an old unused that was lying at home unused. If you don't have any old laptops, you can very easily get a second hand laptop of websites like ebay for dirt cheap.
Check out a few of the demos here:
Check out the full in-depth 8 page build guide by clicking the image below:
