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2-Way Mirror Mounted

A project log for Juliet Magic Mirror

An IoT device that displays the weather, news, time, and can play music: all on a beautiful, clean interface

matt-lagarenneMatt Lagarenne 04/04/2016 at 16:270 Comments

I finally got around to mounting the 2-way mirror to the LCD screen. I took some 3M double-sided heavy duty mounting tape and applied it to the LCD screen bezel. Then I cut off the excess overhang and flipped the LCD screen onto the mirror. Since I have extra mirror overhang around the LCD screen, I used some black electrical tape to stop any light from coming through the sides and ruin the full-mirror effect.

I also recorded a small video showing the program displaying the beginnings of a weather app. The app can already find the weather for the current day and the next week, but right now it only displays the weather. I will have to write some code in order to find out the size of the boxes that are made by the different weather icons in real time, which shouldn't be too hard. I have to think about how I want to layout the weather module in relation to the rest of the screen elements. I will hopefully have that designed and the plans uploaded by the end of the week.

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