![]() ![]() Make a mix of baby shampoo and water and put it in a spray bottle.Take the glass out of the picture frame and clean it with glass/window cleaner spray.Step 1: Add the mirror film sheet on the glass Find a suitable dust-free work area and have all the materials within reach.The squeegee and the extra spray bottle with the shampoo mix can be bought as part of a Window Film Application Tool Kit. These are needed for putting the components together. The 7” Amazon Fire Tablet is 49.99$.īlack tape, scissors, cutter, glass cleaner spray, squeegee, baby shampoo mixed with water in a spray bottle ![]() The price depends on whether you already have a tablet around or if you want a new one, and with what specifications. We bought a roll of black giftwrap paper, and used less than 1 meter from it for this project. Is needed in order to cover the back of the glass to ensure that you get the mirror effect. You can find several on Amazon, for example this Black Frame. We could have bought the glass separately and built the frame, but we took advantage that these two materials are usually put together as picture frames, so we bought ours at our local supermarket. We bought our mirror film from AliExpress but this One Way Mirror Film from Amazon should be pretty similar. These sheets are usually marketed as privacy films for windows. The total cost of building the mirror was around 20$ (excluding the tablet that we already had lying around). A new tablet with similar capabilities would cost around 40$. We used an old Asus Nexus 7 tablet as the computational power for the mirror. We will guide you how to build your own in the rest of this article. It will be interesting to see how the market for smart mirrors will be developing in the future, but as the perfect smart mirror is not available yet to buy, we set out to build one. Many domains based on “smart mirror” or “magic mirror” are already taken, but products are not available yet (for example: magicmirrors.dk). Trends are followed of course by internet domains. There have been several crowdfunding project initiaves (like Perseus, DoodleVU, SmartMirror, Selfiemirror), but we can’t yet buy a smart mirror from a store. There is also clearly some interest in making a business in this area. Here is Google’s trend analysis of the search term “smart mirror” from 2004 until now, measured in percentage of interest over time relative to the highest point of interest: There are many smart mirrors DIY projects shared over the internet (check this Pinterest board cataloging some of them), and the interest in smart mirrors has clearly increased over time. ![]() Common use cases are presenting time, weather forecast, latest news, traffic information, calendars, and any other information that can improve the routine of getting up in the morning and/or preparing to go out. Many of the home-built smart mirrors are powered either by a Raspberry Pi or an Android tablet. This is our first prototype of a smart mirror, and we believe it is amongst the simplest and cheapest methods of building a smart mirror.Ī smart mirror can be loosely defined as a mirror that is able to display information or allows for some kind of interaction, for example by voice, touch or hand-gestures. The content is directed to our bathroom mirror products, but it’s also very helpful to understand the other ones produced by Vercon.Brushing teeth in the morning just got better! A smart mirror can tell time, weather, news and more. In the article Use Specialized Smart Bathroom Mirror, Avoid Paying For Costly White Elephant, we made another analysis from a wider angle. That’s why we don’t produce Raspberry Pi smart mirror but produce specialized smart mirrors. It runs fast and smooth in Vercon smart mirrors. The operating system is dedicated to Android-based VEUI OS. Most motherboards in Vercon smart mirrors are based on Rockchip SoC. However, a DIY smart mirror with Raspberry Pi is an amazing thing as its making needs plentiful technical skills. Obviously, the Raspberry Pi board is too thick. A smart mirror should be thin and light enough. Nobody is willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy a heavy and hulking smart mirror. Strong technical coordination (between factory engineers and Client engineers) is needed for producing it. And, chipsets like RK3288 / RK3399 / RK3588 are faster than the chipset BCM2711 used in the newest Raspberry Pi 4 SoC. Comparatively speaking, some mature commercial motherboards like Android RK3288 SoC are much better options for smart mirror factories as it’s in continuous production. This will bring an awkward situation to factories that need to keep a stable motherboard supply for sustainable mass production. Raspberry Pi will stop producing the previous generation of the board after releasing the new Raspberry Pi SoC. ![]() Structure of Android 11 Backlit Smart Mirror (Vercon K-series) ![]()
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