Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
PSA: Mirror Film Will Not Work on Capacitive Touchscreens
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So a thought occurred to me over night. I work as IT for an automotive company, and just recently setup an older touchscreen device for another department. I still had it under my desk, so I went ahead and brought in a piece of my mirror film.
Since it’s an older model of touchscreen on this device, it’s a resistive touch screen. Sure enough, it works through the film!
So it appears that you will need a resistive touch screen if you plan to make something like this of your own. However, they’re not cheap, and you lose some ability like multi touch. For my purposes, multi touch isn’t a problem, and for the cost issue I have found some touch screen conversion kits that are pretty cheap and resistive!
So it looks like there’s hope for this project of mine.
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Hi @EoF,
Today i’ve received my first raspberry PI (3 model B ) and installed magic mirror. My idea was also too create a touch screen version of the magic mirror. My inspiration to get into this project was this video and I wanted to create something similar:
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6761889/66801fa6/touchscreen_spiegel.htmlI’m looking forward to the progress of your research. I’ll let you know if I find something that can be of use for this project.
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@sdrenth Yeah please keep in touch! I think the next thing I’m going to try is one of those resistive touch screen overlays on I keep seeing on Ebay. You can get a 19" for about $50. Problem is they’re made and shipped from China… Which means I don’t know how soon I’m going to get one.
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@EoF, anywhere between 20 days to a month is how it takes for them to get stuff to me in the US.
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I have not, but I do order a lot of small electronics, custom made PCBs, and stuff like that. Unless I pay the additional $35 DHL service fee, my orders take roughly 3 weeks to arrive. Some of them don’t offer a DHL service, in which case you’re stuck waiting for regular China Post to get to you through the several layers of customs …
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@KirAsh4 Ah alright I was just curious.
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@EoF That indeed might take a while before you’ll get it. Could you provide me with a link of the touch screen you’ve ordered? I’m guessing it’s a standard touch screen or does it also have the mirror overlay?
I’ve just contacted a manufacturer in the United Kingdom which manufactures all kinds of displays, as well as touch mirrors in the hope that they can provide me with some more information about what kind of material we need to be looking for and maybe even provide them. Don’t know if they will respond but I thought it was worth a shot :)
http://prodisplay.com/products/interactive-mirror-tv-overlay/
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@sdrenth Awesome! I was actually just looking at their site earlier.
I’ve been looking for resitive touch screen panel kits. Essentially they’re an overlay you apply to a normal monitor, connect via USB, and it “makes” it into a touchscreen.
However, I am have a very hard time finding one that is decent. They only place I can even find them listed is on ebay, and they all have one little thing wrong with them. Such as being incorrect size, incorrect aspect ratio, or something else.
I can’t seem to catch a break :/
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I’ve received the following response from Pro Display this week, so they are using a monitor with on top of that a mirror glass on top of the mirror glass a touch screen. I think this solution would be cheaper when looking for a larger screen size as opposed to looking for a large built-in touch screen monitor.
This would have the touch frame sat on the surface of the mirror glass, like the attached project images they inbuilt this into a decretive frame to conceal. I’ve also attached images of how this can look as a full solution.
This boasts a commercial grade monitor which can be used in either portrait or landscape format, multi touch (6point touch) and 24/7 usage.
You would then wire both the screen and touch frame back to a windows running computer.
