How I'm doing so far:

Well I have successfully received all of my materials and installed the code for the mirror onto the tablet. A problem here is to make sure that I am drawing from the correct sources (yahoo finance, calendar, etc). I have found that the "chores" notification is hardcoded instead of drawing from an app on the phone, which would lead to difficulties in the accessibility of this function. For example, the stock price notification pulls data directly from Yahoo Finance and therefore requires no additional maintenance from a coding point of view, whereas I would need to reprogram the tablet each time I wanted to add a new chore. As for the calendar, I need to make sure that the calendar app that the program is pulling from can be assessed by my iPhone, to make for easy accessibility.

Mentor

I met briefly with Joel and he was impressed with my progress and was eager to see the product. I will meet with him again once I get the motion sensor working.

Physical Mirror:

The mirror is proving to be a little difficult. I have the two way mirror plastic and the tablet shows through perfectly, however the device itself is heavy. As someone who lives on-campus I cannot really use nails or other strong adhesives to ensure that the mirror will not fall, so instead I have just rested it onto of my mini-fridge. In order to get the mirror to work, I have blacked out the back of the mirror with dark paper, with a small rectangle left uncovered for the tablet to show through. This prevents the user from seeing through the mirror and instead having it serve as a reflective device.

Motion Sensor:

I have found an app that I hope to use in order to transform the front-facing mirror into a motion detector. I will post more on this in the coming days.