Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
IR frame or Touch-foil
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Here’s a picture of my setup so far to illustrate how short the cable really is.
There are ventilation slats in my wooden case on top and also on the bottom. I routed the bar cable through one of the lower slits (marked in red). So the cable will be partionally visible.
I decided not to drill a whole in the mirror and disassemble the bar to get the cable “properly” routed through the glass because I was afraid to break the mirror while doing so.I also found a SD card reader that will fit exactly the height of the ventilation slit. That way I will be able to replace the card without thee need of disassembling the whole mirror.
The loudspeakers will be connected to the Pi with a soundcard and a PAM8403 amplifier, because the screen’s speakers would not come out clear when hidden in the case and below the mirror.
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Maybe a silly question:
Does the Airbar sits under the Mirror glas or over that?
Different asking:
I my point of View it seems, that the Bar has to been installed “on the front”. So it has to been set on the mirror glas, right?
So i would be able to install it additional to my current Mirror? -
The bar sits on top of the mirror and can thus be easily retrofit.
It comes with 2 small self-adhesive magnet plates that can be sticked directly onto the mirror.
I decided to drill 2 holes in the wooden frame and sunk 2 strong cylindric magnets (10x10mm, N45) into it. The mirror is scotch-taped onto that frame and lets the magnets be invisible after install. -
Looks very interesting, nice alternative.
Would you mind making a short video demonstrating its functions? -
I’ll have to ask my son on how to (properly do) do my first youtube video. But I will try to fly-wire my setup and show you how it works. Just give me a couple of days until I am back home mid-Jan.
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I guess I’ll have to postpone the video. I wanted to get everything assembled and was rushing a bit too hard. Now the display is broken. Bummer.
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@tomster
Oh my gosh. Now I feel guilty for having asked you :(
I’m very sorry -
No need to have hard feelings. All I can blame is my-damn-self.
But there’s a German saying: There’s no bad thing that doesn’t also have something good to it.At least I can now upgrade my display to a WQHD 2560 x 1440 one. I didn’t like the glitchy Full HD font rendering of the old display anyway ;-)
Downside is that the display I chose is yet not available.
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@tomster Can you tell me where you found that setting for the airbar. Because my mouse pointer is also going over the full screen.
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Sure,
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26688409&sid=172a88e980b0429d29361f7537b9d321#p26688409
Just click on the link to the Google Spreadsheet in the posting, play around with the values in the spreadsheet and copy’n’paste the output in row 22 to your RasPi shell. After you hit Enter the values will take effect instantly (until you reboot the Pi).Once you’re happy with the results create a config file and your map will be applied at boot time.
