Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Introduce yourself!
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@MichMich Great stuff this Magic Mirror is.A little about me…
I am a service advisor for Mercedes Benz. I enjoy technology and building things. Mostly wood working, planters decks, trellace–you get the idea.
I was “into” computers when the Timex silcalire was out, but never got into programming past Basic language.
But when I saw this MM, I was like wow!! I want to make this for my daughter.
SO I bought a RPi and it sat for months until I saw this forum for MM2.I have set up the MM2 interface and will definitely need help from you guys for setting things up.
Thanks for making this forum!
Happy Holidays to all!!
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Howdy, I’m John. I’m a 35 year old punk rock nerd living in Las Vegas, NV.
I play in a band and own and operate a commercial recording studio. I’ve always been a computer guy and studied C++ in high school, 15+ years ago.
I don’t consider myself a particularly skilled craftsman, so I recruited a good friend to help with assembly. He is a general contractor with access to tools and knowledge of how to build a professional looking frame. I think we’re going to attempt our first monitor debezel this weekend. We are very excited!
Thank you so much for creating this resource, and thanks to all the folks that have shared! I’m still trying to refresh and update my programming knowledge - hopefully I’ll be able to contribute to this shared information in the near future.
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Hi there,
I just spent the past few days getting my mirror setup working… well, it was an hour of realizing my old Pi would not do it, several days of waiting for the new one to arrive and then just a few hours to be up and running!
I actually registered here just to say “GREAT JOB”. The base system was up and running in maybe an hour (including installing raspian) with all the defaults and a few others (the commute one, wunderground, airports, etc). Took me another hour to get Facial recognition and Sonos hooked up.
I do have a heavy development / linux background, but nothing with node.js at all and I really do not like JavaScript. But I plan on writing a mod to handle talking to a MythTv backend to display a few different things. Hopefully someone will get use out of it and I can give something back to the community.
I am just stunned at how easy this was to get up and running, well done on that installer guys.
Thank you for this awesome thing!
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Hey there,
my name is philipp, 35 years old from germany.
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I think I might write something here aswell. I am a 20 years old and from the Netherlands. I am studying computer science and really enjoy doing so. I really like the MagicMirror project, but haven’t made one myself just yet. I am planning to do so in the near future.
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Hello all, my name is Daniel and go by 1m2 on diff. forums and what not.
I live in hot as heck Phoenix!
I’m 37 years old and gathering materials now to build my own mm2.
Been in IT for 16 some years, last 2-3 years I have been working as an Application Integration Test Engineer.
Love gadgets and tinkering but I’m not a heavy coder at all myself so I may enlist assistance from my code savvy brother only he doesn’t know it yet. lol.
My hobby thus far has been chopping up car dashes and removing the crappy radio’s they usually have and fabricating removable tablets into them with aftermarket hidden HU’s.
And… I don’t like long walks on the beach, only short ones.
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Hi,
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HI I’m Justin, I’m a rookie programmer and want to try building a Magic Mirror for my apartment. I’ve been looking at it for some months now. I’ve just been procrastinating. SO any pep talks please send my way.
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Hi all,
I guess I should have come here when I first joined the forum but I was so anxious for information that I didn’t even see this category, initially.
I’m 58 years old. I am a retired New York City Police Officer. I now work for a local automobile titling and registration company. I have 3 children. My son, the youngest, is a Senior at Stevens Institute of Technology. You can thank (or blame) him for my being here. He introduced me to uBuntu and simply mentioned the Raspberry Pi to me before heading back to school. (See the full story in “Show your mirror”. The rest is history.
I would just like to mention 3 names. They are/were instrumental in helping me get my mirror up and running and continuing to answer my questions relating to customization.
PeppaPigKilla - The first person here to reply to my very first post for help
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Strawberry 3.141So, thank you and all the other wonderful, helpful, creative people here.
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