1st Project: Hallway Notice Board with Integrated Smart Mirror

[joela85]

For a while I’ve wanted to make my own mirror and decided to integrate it into a hallway notice board next to the front door.
One of my aims was to try and keep the frame quite low profile, I re-purposed my old Sony Vaio laptop LCD. Set about designing and making the frame.

I decided to make the frame out of Oak.

The software side of things was nice and simple, good to learn some programming along the way to personalise. Just running a few modules at the moment. Will add some more on a timed schedule.
I like the MMM-Todoist Module, I use that to send my mirror messages from wherever I am as reminders.

Here is the finished Mirror
On the left the is the mirror. I made this myself with glass and mirror vinyl. on the right is a matt grey vinyl on glass with a metal sheet behind for use with the wooden magnets I made to match the frame. I can use liquid chalk markers for notes on the glass.

Overusing the masking tape a little.

Next job is to hang it on the wall and hide the wires powering the mirror.

[yawns]

@joela85
Beautiful frame, well done.

[Mykle1]

@joela85

Yes, nicely done. :thumbsup_tone1:

[cowboysdude]

Very nicely done!! :)

[bhepler]

Wow. Excellent woodworking skills there. Good idea in both concept & execution.

[Snille]

Looking great! Nice work!

[joela85]

Thank you. :)
I like the idea that it can be finished but you can always update or tweak the software/appearance stuff remotely.

[joela85]

Now Wall Mounted. Still a few module mods to make.

[Mykle1]

@joela85

I like the whole idea, design and implementation.

I like that module at the bottom left, especially. :thumbsup:

Well done!

[ceddirr]

Really nice work!
Love it! My wife wants the same lol

Could you please give us a link (or a name) where we could find the connectors to make an old laptop’s screen working please?

[yawns]

@ceddirr
basically just find out the model of your display and search for this on ebay or google. Hopefully you will find plenty of these suitable for your display

[joela85]

I got mine off Amazon, but also lots available on ebay. Just search for “HDMI LCD Controller Board” there are lots of different options. I found one that just had the single hdmi output instead of multiple outputs to save space.
You may need to email some of the sellers to check the board is compatible with your LCD panel. If it’s not they may suggest a similar one.

Best option is to look at the part number on the back of the LCD panel, my screen was out of a Sony Vaio laptop but was a Hitachi LCD panel, I searched for "HDMI LCD Controller Board + ‘LCD part number’ " and that came up with a couple of results, make sure the resolution is correct as well.