Who couldn’t use a MagicMirror? I saw this project and immediately wanted to toss our dry-erase calendar in the garbage. Michael Teeuw has done an outstanding job of building a nice extendable framework for us to join in on the fun. Please check out the MagicMirror site as well.

This guide is meant to give people ideas and resources on how to source and build their own MagicMirror. I will also be focusing on constructing the frame so please check out the video link below.

For those who are not familiar with the project, we are basically placing a monitor behind a one-way mirror (semi-transparent mirror). In ideal lighting conditions, everything on the screen that is black presents as a mirror while white (or other high-contrast colors) shine through. My goal was to make a decorative family dashboard which would sync calendars, shopping lists, weather, and possibly AlexaPi (more on that later). The sales pitch was made to my wife about how it would improve our family life and production started.