/mirrorpi

Raspberry Pi based Smart Mirror

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

mirrorpi

Raspberry Pi based Smart Mirror

finished product

Based on the work of Michael Teeuw (http://michaelteeuw.nl/tagged/magicmirror). This is a Python version that uses:

The UI simply uses tkinter

screenshot

How it works is simple: a monitor is used to display the program ran by the Raspberry Pi. A 2-way mirror acrylic sheet is glued on the monitor screen. Where black is displayed, the mirror acts as a normal reflective mirror. When light coloured text or images are displayed, the light from the monitor goes through and can then be seen.