Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?
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Thanks for your kind words. Really, I made that frame from a $12 piece of molding from the local Home Depot. Hell, you could buy a $6 miter box and do the same thing yourself.
You can see the whole build here
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1678/1-old-noob-1-rpi-i-can-t-believe-i-did-it-revisitedAnd you can see my use of a cheap miter box here.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4930/vanity-mirror-thy-name-is-woman-using-laptop -
@3DPrintedWaffles said in Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?:
but as it happens my next door neighbor is a big wood working guy. I’m gonna ask for his help with that part of this. I just gotta think of some kind of gift I can give him in return…
Get him a six-pack of beer. It will take him less than five minutes to miter a frame. Or. get yourself the beer and make the frame yourself. Then you get all the glory. :-)
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Also you may have mentioned this earlier and I’ve forgotten, but what size is your monitor? I’m considering upping my size… =-/ -
@Mykle1 Heh I might do the woodwork on my next one. I plan to make at least a few of these.
He’s a very talented woodworker, he could make it look better than I ever could. Worth a few beers at the very least. I need both the rear frame and bezel cut, so maybe a 24 pack is in order :-)
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That particular monitor is 22" diagonal. Sure, get him a case. Just don’t let him drink it until he is finished with your frame. ;-)
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The Jimmy arrives today and unless I can come up with a better idea I’ll just be trying to crack this thing open like a monkey with a rock.
I got it for just $25 and could probably find another use for it, so I’m half tempted to look for another cheapo that may be easier to open. I dunno man. I dunno.
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Heh! Go easy broze, go easy! :-)
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@Mykle1 Is there a reason people seem to favor computer monitors for this project than TVs? There are some cheap flatscreens in my area for pretty cheap.
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I’m sure there are reasons but I don’t know what they are. Perhaps someone else will chime in here, or, you can search the forum. I think I remember some chatter about using TV displays.
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- Most tv’s show stuff like “signal lost” on screen when you disable hdmi in raspberry to hide the screen, and in some tv’s you cannot disable that
- Cheap tv’s have a poor resolution. The 32" I bought for some bucks only runs 1366x768 and text on your mirror (calendar for example) looks blurry.
But you can still live with it. I will use mine to see if we actually use the magic mirror at all. Then I can still invest money in a better display add replace it
